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Library Planning – Kickstarting the Design Process

It is important to remember that funding a library improvement project does not have to follow a prescribed linear course. In Crowdfunding the Library, we noted that librarians and educators…

acohen June 5, 2013

Library Planning Research Space Planning work in progress

Culture House – the Sound of Library Planning

It turns out that the noise level in the social "library as place" can be a positive factor in the learning environment. The library can be a social and active…

acohen May 30, 2013

Library Planning Research

Library – Learning Commons TouchPoints

Learning TouchPoints are an important part of the library - learning commons - physical program. The service desks, collaboration bars and hubs can be developed to include visualization TouchPoints; spaces…

acohen May 24, 2013

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues work in progress

I-Library – What about the Learning Commons?

The Bexar County library will open a prototype digital public library. According to "Paperless Libraries Switch to Digital" - It will have 100 e-readers on loan, and dozens of screens…

acohen May 22, 2013

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

Making the Learning Commons Mobile

According to MIT Technology Review "Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started," mobile computing is spreading faster than any other consumer technology in history. Almost half of the "late technophobes" have…

acohen May 20, 2013

Library Planning Research Space Planning

Shifting Libraries to Mobile to Support Online Learning

As library users shift transactions to smart phones and other mobile devises, libraries must anticipate how library users will anchor their cloud-based relationship to a real study environment. We are…

acohen May 16, 2013

Library Planning Research work in progress

Education is Changing – Libraries Enhance Learning Support

Library buildings can be designed to enhance learning support and research. Librarians can support the workflow of their researchers by directly supporting, managing and aggregating the content. These days there…

acohen May 9, 2013

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

Education for $10,000 – Use the Library

Recently, the University of Texas president Bill Powers addressed the need to lower the cost for college. He argued that is it already possible for some students to get a…

acohen May 6, 2013

Library Planning Research Space Planning work in progress

Visualizing the Library of the Future

NC State developed a wonderful video for their new library project. The video shows all of the different programmatic components required for a modern academic library including socializing, preservation and…

acohen April 17, 2013

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues work in progress

As Search Goes Mobile, Apps Change the Way We Use the Library

A couple of months ago, it seamed like all of the library information systems - ILS vendors were developing apps. The business of finding information had gone mobile; everyone was…

acohen April 5, 2013