Carrie Goodall's List: library furniture

• • Become the high touch environments in a high tech world. (Think Barnes & Noble)
   
  • Offer our services in a virtual environment. (Think online banking)
   
  • Become uber information experts. (Think a highly competent, highly personalized travel agent)
• Recognizing that instructional technology and library programs overlap in so many ways, and that benefits can be reaped with staff members working closely as a team rather than as separate entities, school officials will strive for a philosophical, functional, and physical merger of the school library with the IT program, with a faculty center and spaces for staff development, as well as spaces where teachers can work with (and learn from) students, school librarians, and IT staff; and

  • Spaces in the library for small group collaboration between students and students and teachers.
• we need to make libraries knowledge production areas.
• For the foreseeable future, a mix of print and non-print materials will be needed in the collection of resources. School libraries need to be the hub of new technologies and the place for books.
• As much as possible we should be designing flexible spaces so that space required today for book storage can easily be converted for other purposes in the future.

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• • booktalking/storytelling area,  
  • computer/technology area,  
  • instructional/classroom area,  
  • quiet study/recreational reading area,  
  • a multimedia production area,  
  • storage/processing workroom.  

• Hilarious! - Carrie Goodall on 2010-03-04