1 / 17

Update on Cambridge Public Library’s Information Commons Project – July 2003

This project update outlines the ongoing evolution of the Information Commons at the Cambridge Public Library, as planned by the DCIC Planning Team. Key completed tasks include a needs analysis for undergraduate users, layout models, fundraising brochure images, cost estimates, and staging of undergraduate needs. The update details facility enhancements, such as improved natural lighting, varied seating options, bookable spaces, and a coffee shop. Public service points, staffing, and technology integration are also discussed as integral components of a modern learning environment.

dillon
Download Presentation

Update on Cambridge Public Library’s Information Commons Project – July 2003

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. DC Information Commons –Project Update to Library Staff Anne Fullerton Chair, DCIC Planning Team July 17, 2003

  2. Planning is a series of approximations to a moving target. Library Planning Associates Building Program Update. Cambridge [Mass] Public Library

  3. Work Completed • Needs analysis undergrad users (Systems Design Engineering 348 project) • Model 1 layout • 4 images for fundraising brochure (entrance, service desk, teaching lab, seating) • Cost estimates • Staging

  4. Undergrad Needs (SDE 348 surveys) • More natural light & reliable carrel light • Well defined noisy & quiet study areas • Larger carrels • More seating options and capacity • Bookable space • Coffee shop; 24/7 area…….

  5. Carrels – quiet study Group study tables and rooms Copiers Staff offices Computer Hub Express workstations Teaching Lab Glass enter/ exit Info & Circ desks side by side Stacks rotated, pcs in stacks

  6. Entrance/Exit

  7. User Services/Info Desks

  8. Seating Options

  9. Teaching Lab

  10. Costs (examples) Library entrance $172K 10 group study rooms $175K Laptop lending $195K Teaching Lab $370K

  11. Work In Progress • Tasks in detail – who, what, when • Model 1 feedback - Library staff & Users • Project architect • Discuss issues/implications of • consolidating public service points • laptop lending • student staffing – computer hub

  12. Computing hub (furniture) Express terminals (furniture) Service desk (furniture) Stacks rearrangement Compact shelving (lower floor) Architect's fees Carpeting Staffing Funding to Date: $1million Public Announcement – October 28, 2003

  13. Questions, Comments? • Email us: libDInfoCom@library.uwaterloo.ca • Website: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/infocommons/

  14. A Teaching & Learning Library has: • Extensive power & data grids • E-classroom • Wired study spaces • Appropriate ambient illumination • Ergonomic computer furniture • Group study options • Information commons Bazillion & Braun. Academic Libraries as High-Tech Gateways

  15. What’s an Information Commons? • Full service computers • Human help • Access to all formats of the collection • Defined space

  16. What they said about DC in 1988 • Conspicuous symbol of the future & the advance of technology • Interior suggests a controlled celebration of technology • Colour is a metaphor for the visual world of the computer monitor

More Related