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Quality and Assessment – Case Study LibQUAL+ and ACA’s Visual Scan

VISUAL SCAN© SPACE AUDIT LibQUAL+® is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand and act upon users' opinions of service quality. The Visual…

acohen May 1, 2009

Library Planning Research Space Planning

Blended Learning Environment

acohen April 29, 2009

Social Library Issues

Can Technology Save the Economy?

America needs to get back to investing in technology again. It has been a struggle for many US libraries to improve their environments and adapt to new technology. Since…

acohen April 27, 2009

Library Planning Research work in progress

Accurate measurement of current collection space is crucial for effective planning

For librarians and libraries who are thinking about why they should invest and digitize historical collections. We believe that digitization projects are very good at: 1. Embracing digital technology to…

acohen April 21, 2009

Library Planning Research Space Planning

library – the tech answer

The Pew Report Internet and American Life Project did a survey on mobile devises and how its changing the way we live. It stated that 61 percent do not feel…

acohen April 20, 2009

Library Planning Research

WAYS TO IMPROVE LEARNING SPACES WITH TRACKING SENSORS

How well does the "library as place" support learning? It is important for the library building to provide natural flow and movement. When there are bottlenecks in the flow of…

acohen April 14, 2009

Space Planning work in progress

WAYS TO IMPROVE LEARNING SPACES

TRACKING SENSORS What tools can we use to make "library as place" better? It is important for the library building to provide a natural flow and movement. When there are…

acohen April 11, 2009

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues work in progress

Reimagining the printed page

The future of the book is very important to our work. There was an article in the New York Times, April 4, 2009 about Bradley Inman - the inventor of…

acohen April 8, 2009

Library Planning Research

Library Interview Questions

The following are interview questions that our firm has been asked to address for an academic library project. We are posting them because they are important for those to consider…

acohen April 7, 2009

Library Planning Research Space Planning

visual scan

The library building is a structural framework of spaces that support a network of physical and virtual library services and operations. We have developed a measurement approach to visualize each…

acohen April 3, 2009