Logical partnerships in the learning commons GT Library

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons GT
Library
Crit Stuart GUGM 2005, Macon, Georgia
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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Stimuli at GT
• Install an information / learning commons in
  collaboration with OIT
• Consider the commons an experiment to inform
  future transformations of space, and future
  collaborations

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Reinventing the academic library
• 1st phase in library for learning
• redefine staff roles and skill sets
• consolidate service points

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Learning from the commons experiments in
collaboration and transformation
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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• GT Partnership includes
• Library (primary)
• OIT (primary)
• Student Support services (emerging)
• Academic departments (emerging)
• GT students clubs (emerging)

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• OIT provides
• 10,000 hours of student and full staff support
• all technology support in commons and adjacent
  areas software refreshment server support
  responsibility for printers, paper, toner
• purchase of peripheral hardware, printers and
  other just-in-time purchases

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Library provides
• expert staffing every hour the Library is open
• 24 / 5 plus Saturdays
• exceptional aesthetics, security, furnishings,
  customer savvy
• assistance with all OIT staff interviews
  (student and full-time) who work in the Commons
• co-leadership with OIT, both over-arching and
  day-to-day

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Whats the big deal about multimedia?
• Emerging multimedia applications appeal to
  Net- Gen students
• Libraries and IT units are logical partners to
  create multimedia centers
• As partners provide good equipment, software and
  support, Net-Gen students will flock.

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Prior to commons, OITs multimedia assets were
• buried in OITs complex and rarely used, with
  limited equipment, software, hours and
  assistance, and little campus awareness
• With advent of commons, multimedia assets are
• easy to find, in great setting
• 22 Mac G-5s . . . enough demand to triple
  capacity
• an elaborate growing suite of editing tools
• influencing both student faculty expectations
  of multimedia
• home base for film and photography clubs, and
  for iMovie Fest competition

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Consultation cubicles
• reserved by College of Engineering faculty for
  their teaching assistants office hours
• desirable location in popular commons
• student demand for more comprehensive
  assistance with all undergraduate tutoring . . .
  writing clinic in development

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Presentation rehearsal studio
• considers practice a serious component of
  successful outcomes
• technology supported by OIT room managed by
  Library
• studio mimicked by writing lab in Engineering
  helped secure 100K gift

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• Alternative uses of facility
• gaming nights with computer game tournament
  movies (student made and commercial) improv
  theater a capella groups rafting / climbing
• in collaboration with student clubs, Freshman
  Orientation, OIT

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Faculty partnerships what next?
• increasing expectation that OIT Library staff
  will teach technology skills to their students
• faculty invited to teach sections in multimedia
  ctr.
• imagine TAs keeping extended hours in this
  neutral common ground
• growing appreciation for multimedia projects
  puts them on par with term papers

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• OIT partnership whats next
• relocate Customer Support to the Library, with
  greatly expanded hours
• consider software training to relieve demand in
  Multimedia Center
• do whatever it takes to sustain this success
  story

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Logical partnerships in the learning commons

• Student partnership whats next?
• sustain successful Library Partners Student
  Advisory Council (SAC)
• give SAC co-responsibility for booking
  performances, securing GT student and faculty
  art, and other student-friendly services
• give students ample opportunities for feedback
  suggestions

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