Library Facilities Planning Workshops and Training Programs

Want to Do a Workshop on Library / Learning Center Design (workshop and training)
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Contact us and revitalize your library. We can provide an assessment and best practices, learn about great services, design and space use.

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Reinventing the Library Learning Space

EXAMPLE WORKSHOP: "Reinventing the Library Learning Space" offers higher education and administration, health science and services, K-12 schools, government research and museums the opportunity to analyze active learning space designs. Our clients regularly ask us to share our knowledge about library space planning and active learning spaces. We design spaces that offer flexibility; digital information integration through passive and active behavior, technology and design.

Our workshop attendees are professional who are focusing on reinventing library learning spaces for their organization - Projects that are either in pre-planning (master plan) or at the implementation stage (design project).

During the session, participants will be given examples including library planning metrics. Participants will engage in roundtable exercises and discuss case studies. We will offer our 47 year history as Library Learning Space Consultants including academic, public, government, medical, law and special libraries. Workshop activities include touring and engaging with Steelcase furniture. Our library program measurements, project management, service point design, data analytics, logistics and budget / capital management

During our library workshops:

• We encourage clients to network and provide feedback learn about their needs.

• We will share the five modes of learning and tour the NYC Worklife to show how furniture support each mode (social, collaborative, reflective, presentation, touch-point).

• We will share programmatic considerations for implementing a shared research space on campus or in an education and healthsciences community

• We will help connect programming goals to support design choices

• We will share examples of library+education+healthscience+research space designs

• Our expert presenters bring experience from multiple projects to the table. Their firsthand knowledge will help answer your library planning and research space questions to move your project forward.

Historical List of Past Library Planning Workshops

Online Workshop for World Bank
Sept. 22, 2020

Thriving through COVID 
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Workshop on the Library of the Future and Options to Promote Safe Libraries

Thriving through Covid.
Webinar
September 22, 2020

Combined workshop to support special libraries around the world

Library Space Planning -- Developing a Self Study for the Northern New York Library Network.
Webinar
July 24, 2018

NNLYN - Northern New York Library Network

Library Space Planning -- Using Knowledge Management Principles for Success," , for the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA).
Webinar
July 19, 2017

LLAMA - American Library Association

Smart Library - Designing for the Future
Workshop
November 3, 2016

Steelcase NYC - Furniture/Technology/Function

Smart Library - Designing for the Future
Workshop
November 3, 2016

Steelcase NYC - Furniture/Technology/Function

Developing a Learning Commons
Workshop
November 13, 2015

Steelcase NYC - Furniture/Technology/Function

Steelcase Worklife: Key Considerations for Learning Commons Furniture and Design
Webinar
September 25, 2015

A program that will prepare you to design a learning commons