Creating a Learning Commons (Paperback)

Lynn D. Lampert

ISBN 10: 1442272635 / ISBN 13: 9781442272637

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD, 2019

About this Item

Paperback. Creating a Learning Commons: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides experienced and detailed research-based guidance for academic librarians and other professionals charged with creating a learning commons. Readers can follow the entire process of developing a library learning commons design and implementation plan from inception to post-occupancy planning and assessment. This practical guide is designed to help librarians develop sound strategies for navigating the challenging issues that often emerge in launching a dynamic and collaborative new library learning commons space within a university or college setting. Lampert and Meyers-Martin provide a practical guide, complete with examples and photos of award-winning learning commons designs. This book will help dedicated professionals identify best practices within todays existing learning commons settings and get up to speed on how to best approach developing their own librarys new and innovative learning spaces. Creating a Learning Commons: A Practical Guide for Librarians also includes useful case studies, interviews, descriptions of equipment and new technologies, and models for planning, marketing, and assessing projects. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating a Learning Commons (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442272635
• ISBN 13: 9781442272637
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Creating a Learning Commons: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides experienced and detailed research-based guidance for academic librarians and other professionals charged with creating a learning commons. Readers can follow the entire process of developing a library learning commons design and implementation plan from inception to post-occupancy planning and assessment.

This practical guide is designed to help librarians develop sound strategies for navigating the challenging issues that often emerge in launching a dynamic and collaborative new library learning commons space within a university or college setting.
Lampert and Meyers-Martin provide a practical guide, complete with examples and photos of award-winning learning commons designs. This book will help dedicated professionals identify best practices within today’s existing learning commons settings and get up to speed on how to best approach developing their own library’s new and innovative learning spaces.

About the Author

Lynn D. Lampert is the coordinator of information literacy and instruction at California State University (CSU)–Northridge. Lynn served as a key member of the Oviatt Library’s Learning Commons Planning Team, which managed the $2.5 million learning commons renovation project. Lynn also helped develop and design the learning commons’s new makerspace area, which opened to students in the fall of 2014.

Coleen Meyers-Martin is coordinator of outreach services at the California State University (CSU)–Northridge’s Oviatt Library. In 2013, she coordinated a multifaceted marketing campaign that promoted the Library’s $2.5 million learning commons renovation to students, faculty, staff, and community members.