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AGUB-UBK-VOWB Meeting
Designing Libraries for Learning Barbara
Knorn Bielefeld University Library Maastricht,
January 15 16, 2009
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Why we talk about Designing libraries for
learning?

• Bachelor and master study paths change the
  students learning situation
• Tuition fees demands of the students rise
• Cooperation between computer centre, library and
  media centre gains a new dimension
• Employees in the 21st century Flexibility,
  mobility, social networking, capacity for
  teamwork (not always only spatial cooperation)

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New Learning Culture

• Social networking / cooperative modes of working
• Students technically accomplished well
  networked chaotic structures
• Learning requirements / noise requirements
• The library as a space of communication and
  encounter not only the explicit wish for
  concentrated silence

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Learning Space Library in the 21st Century

• Technologies used in learning
• Different room-offerings with flexible furniture
  in order to comply with social aspects
• Reorganization within the University
• No academic eduation without libraries
• Universities compete with each other

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DINI Vital Learning Spaces Student Competition

• Patronage Federal Ministry of Education and
  Research
• Prize money 5000 Euro
• Closing date 3rd March
• Proposed topics

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Bielefeld Service Concept

• Invention of an integrated information and
  communication management (ICM)
• User-oriented library services, partly in
  cooperation with computer and media centre
• Thesis The more libraries open up and adapt
• their services to the needs of the students the
  more the students learning situation will be
  improved the more the library will be used

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Course Reserves
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Silent Areas
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Computer Technology in Cooperation with the
Computer Centre
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Parent-Child-Rooms
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Shopping Basket
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Discussion Rooms
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Textile Coverage to Reduce Draught
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W-LAN, Locking Device for Notebooks, Multiple
Socket Outlets for Notebooks
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Copiers with Scanning and Printing Features
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Cushions
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Reading Nook
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Discussion Rooms with Smartboard Equipment