If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Director and University of Chicago Librarian Judith Nadler discusses continuity and change as reflected in the strategies of a great research library at the heart of a great University. Her ideas are built on 45 years of experience at the University of Chicago Library.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This presentation describes a research project in which reiterative visitor observation and focus group research was conducted over the span of one year, during which high-impact and low-cost design changes were made to the first floor of a mid-sized academic library. Research results were used to assess user needs, shape design...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The adaptadriven phystion of library spaces by implementing small-scale, user-driven physical changes to the user environment. This involved the refurbishing and the redesign of antiquated resources within the constraint of a limitedbudget. The desired library goal focuses on the improved suitability of the library as a place to...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York serves a population of over 12,000 students. When we began to see that our two floor library was not adequately meeting student needs wedecided to create an environment conducive to both collaborative learning and individualstudy. With one floor a quiet/Reference...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the UC San Diego Science & Engineering Library (S&E) we have reconfigured spaces, services, and collections in a series of small-scale renovations over the past four years. The result of these iterative changes is improved access to services and collections, more efficient use of staffing, and a lively library where...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Galter Health Sciences Library initiated a series of small-scale, low-cost approaches to space renovation, all driven by the daily behavior of its users. Starting with the concept of "connection", electricity and online access was expanded, leveraging users' own personal devices.Next, shelves were removed, seating was...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. In the past four years Michigan State University Libraries have designed, constructed, created, and evaluated six small collaborative technology labs in our Main Library, four in our Engineering Branch, and one in our Business Library. In the Main Library we have also created two large collaborative study "areas." These projects...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Incremental changes are best done in the context of a vision for the future of a library, with strategies for its transformation providing a framework to guide improvements. Getting to that vision requires thinking about the likelihood of alternative future scenarios, exploring how staff roles, services and user demands may...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A decade ago, today's notion of learning spaces was largely theoretical. The paradigms of "smart" classrooms and computer labs were the models of the day -- simply add technology to a space and that would transform learning. What we didn't fully understand was that technology and space work together in concert with the...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Black Hawk College Library redesigned its reading and circulation desk areas by trading their spaces. The suggestion for the redesign was made by a LIS graduate student from UW-Madison who was completing her required practicum hours at BHC in fall term 2006. During a library staff visioning exercise, she sketched a radically...