'TFE Task Furniture in Education is a Marie Curie FP7 (IAPP) Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways funded programme.
The project emerges from ongoing and previous research undertaken in the Industrial Design Department at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin through its graduate school GradCAM and its international collaborators in the area of school furniture design and analysis. While there is a wide range of student task furniture available on the market today, most of it is inadequate to meet the postural needs of pupils and particularly in the context of the accelerating introduction of advanced classroom information technology.'
'The library is at the heart of most learning institutions and quite often serves as a centerpiece for the community. NOVA Solutions offers a variety of technology-ready furniture options for different areas of the library — from circulation to study nooks.'
'The main and basement levels, Special Collections and Archives, and the Nixon Lounge on the third floor, plus technology infrastructure, heating, mechanical and air handling systems throughout the four-floor building. The elevator also was enlarged for handicapped accessibility, and compact shelving was installed to increase collection capacity."
'With over 250,000 successful installations since 1972, Spacesaver Corporation is the industry leader when it comes to secure storage, locker storage, cantilever shelving, and mobile shelving.
Whether you're in need of library shelving, office storage solutions, military storage, museum storage, evidence storage, pharmacy storage, or industrial storage racks, Spacesaver has a nationwide network of local authorized representatives that specialize in library storage systems, business storage, ammunition storage, archival storage, evidence storage, hospital storage, and parts storage.'
'Building new libraries, additions, and even remodeling can be a daunting task, and one that most librarians do not undertake frequently. This fact sheet provides references to the tools, resources, and advice to help you manage your library building project, whether large or small. Although this list has been segmented by types of libraries--academic (college/university) libraries (along with a section on planning archives and off-site shelving), public libraries, and school libraries--materials listed for one type may have useful information for planning other types of buildings.'
"determining best practices for design, implementation, and service"
'In response to frequent inquiries for information about planning academic library buildings, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) have joined forces to provide a basic framework for architects, planners, and librarians embarking on the planning and design of libraries for higher education. '
'In order to improve library instruction, we need to develop a richer understanding of the holistic learning and teaching experience of our institutions.'
'in order to programmatically improve our efforts at library instruction and outreach, we need to develop a richer understanding of the holistic learning and teaching experience that comprises our institutions. Threshold concepts are core ideas in a particular area or discipline that, once understood, transform perceptions of that subject. Curriculum mapping is a method of visualizing insight into the steps, requirements, and communities a learner negotiates as they engage with a particular learning experience or degree path. When understood and applied in tandem, these strategies provide a powerful means of developing actionable insight into the learner and faculty perspective and highlight pivotal points at which to provide library instruction, resources, and research support. This paper will explore theoretical and applied applications of threshold concepts and curriculum mapping as key to teaching and learning in libraries.'
'American Libraries’ annual review of the best in new and renovated library facilities'
'American Libraries’ annual review of the best in new and renovated library facilities'
'UK library design, library training and consultancy in reader development for libraries'
'For ladies and gentlemen of a certain age, the library is changing too fast. For kids, it's changing too slow. University students are caught in the middle. Their library experience must be like surfing: riding the edge of a moving wave, never quite cresting, never quite crashing. Such a state has to be thrilling but ultimately exhausting.'
'New technologies allow today’s buildings to be more efficient and responsive to occupant needs than ever before. A challenge to the building industry is to understand the opportunities offered by these new technologies and learning how best to apply them. In addition, detailed information on building performance rarely gets back to design and development teams, leading to a situation in which many building industry professionals make economic and design decisions with insufficient feedback from experience, or input from objective research.'
'Most library space planning begins with focused attention to library operations. At a time when more and more library services can and should be delivered digitally, traditional planning methods are all too likely to yield poor returns on new investment in physical library space.'
'This case study describes concepts for three types of learning spaces that grew out of a Learning Landscape planning process. The process was part of a master plan study for the three campuses of the University at Buffalo. It involved research into user needs and aspirations about future pedagogy, development of learning space strategy, campus-scale planning principles, and concepts for exemplary spaces.'
'The design and implementation of technology can prove a particularly daunting challenge for campus planners and project designers. Specialization is required for the selection and implementation of technologies including the familiar network, telecommunications, and data-processing functions, and also the more esoteric emerging technology labs and simulation spaces, financial trading rooms, and teleconference centers. These varied learning spaces are vital to the core goal of educating students, yet technology implementation often follows a predictable path — with mixed results.'
'As it turns out, spaces that are created to engage students in active, collaborative learning are best designed by facilitating similar processes with users to identify their learning space needs. A recent survey by the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) and Herman Miller, Inc., indicated that respondents believed users should be the key drivers in learning space design.'