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Got input?
Work in a group, yak with your friends, ask
questions, mutter intently to yourself. Colorful
tables noisy zone. Looking for a little
shush? Try the upper floors for that crucial
off-the-beaten-path-ness. Oak tables quiet
zones. Unplug! Use the network on your
wireless-ready laptop anywhere in the library,
or while basking in the sun on patio. Full of
surprises, but also not. The new furniture is
colorful, the new services arent what you might
expect, but its all in addition to (not instead
of) the best of the traditional library. Got
suggestion? Give it to us straight we can take
it. This is all new and we love ideas to make it
better. All comments are taken seriously.
Seriously. A better mousetrap. Change is good,
and this is just the beginning. Keep checking
back to see how we reinvent ourselves tell us
what you like, what you would like, and what you
dont like. We want the changes to focus on you,
your teaching and learning, our community.
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The Architecture of an Idea

• Encouraging the Unplanned
• Educause 2004

Dan Gjelten, Director of Libraries Jeffrey
Scherer, FAIA, Architect Lisa Burke, Information
Architect
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University of St. ThomasSt. Paul, Minnesota

• Largest private university in Minnesota
• 2nd tier in U.S. News National Universities
  Doctoral category
• 5,429 undergraduate and 5,937 graduate students
  total 11,366
• 51 women 14 students of color
• 4 libraries with nearly 500,000 volumes on two
  campuses

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Presentation

1. Vision
2. Principles and Process
3. Physical Space
4. Virtual Space
5. What we are Learning
6. Questions

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• "When you build a thing you cannot merely build
  that thing in isolation, but must also repair the
  world around it, and within it, so that the
  larger world at that one place becomes more
  coherent, and more whole and the thing which you
  make takes its place in the web of nature...
• Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

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Guiding Principles

1. Focus on learningplanned and unplanned
2. Create space for spontaneity and socializing
   library as Agora and 3rd place
3. Traditional library boundaries eroding
4. Parity between virtual and physical
5. Change on-the-fly

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Balancing Tensions

• Permanence
• Solidity
• Solemnity
• Sacred
• Solitude
• Quiet
• Status Quo

Transience Flexibility Playfulness Profane Communa
l Noise Innovation
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Architecture
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Balancing Tensions

• Permanence
• Solidity
• Solemnity
• Sacred
• Solitude
• Quiet
• Status Quo

Transience Flexibility Playfulness Profane Communa
l Noise Innovation
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Architecture
The disappearing act
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The Real Conundrum
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Five Paradigms
Social Space
Technology
Rooms
Traditional
Modern
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Yikes! The drawing shows the tables arranged in
odd ways!
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MIT quote
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• The question we need to address is not the
  integration of library resources with each other
  it is the integration of library services with
  the learning and research behaviors of users.
• -- Dempsey, Recombinant Portal

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NextGen behaviors

• Format agnostic
• Nomadic
• Multitasking
• Experiential
• Collaborative
• Integrated
• Principled
• Adaptive
• Direct

-- Abram/Luther, Born with the Chip
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Library space design trends

• Collaborative workspaces
• Spaces for groups
• Learning and teaching spaces
• Archives, special collections and exhibit spaces
• Whats new spaces
• Cultural events spaces
• Age-specific spaces
• -- Scherer and Demas, 2002

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Virtual Infocommons

• Prototype
• Personalized news resources
• Integrated course/library resources
• Multiple service venues
• Collaboration and communication tools
• Virtual events

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Virtual Infocommons

• Prototype 1
• Entry page
• Co
• Prototype 2web
• desktop
• Entry page
• Course tab
• Course resources

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Virtual Infocommons
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Diana Oblinger Educating the Net Generation

• How well do we understand our students?
• How interactive are our learning environments?
• Do we have an infrastructure that enables
  pervasive learning?
• What types of physical and virtual spaces
  will enable learning and community building?

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What we are Learning

• Confusion on what is allowed
• Group study is essential (enclosed is better)
• Space is more alive
• Interaction between staff and student is not a
  given
• Communicate clearly what is what
• Library expectations determine reaction to the
  changes

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Resources

• 2003 Environmental Scan A Report to the OCLC
  Membership. Dublin, OH OCLC, 2004.
• Abram, Stephen and Judy Luther.  Born with the
  Chip. Library Journal  v129. i8 (5/1/2004)
  p.129.
• Alexander, Christopher, et al.  A Pattern
  LanguageTowns, Building, Construction.  New
  York Oxford University Press, 1977.
• Bennett, Scott. Libraries Designed for Learning. 
  Washington, DC Council on Library and
  Information Resources, 2003.
• Demas, Sam and Jeffrey A. Scherer.  Espirit de
  Place Maintaining and Designing Library
  Buildings to Provide Transcendent Spaces. 
  American Libraries v33, i4 (April, 2002) p.65.
• Dempsey, Lorcan.  The Recombinant Library
  Portals and People. Co-published simultaneously
  in Journal of Library Administration, 39,4 and
  in Improved Access to Information Portals,
  Content Selection, and Digital Information,
  edited by Sul H. Lee, 103-136. Binghamton, NY
  Haworth.
• Frank, Donald and Elizabeth Howell.  New
  Realities, New Relationships.  CRL News v64, i1
  (January, 2003) p. 24. Pew Internet and
  American Life Project Reports.
• Ray, Kathlin L. The Postmodern Library in an Age
  of Assessment.  Conference paper.  ACRL Tenth
  National Conference.

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Thank you!

• Daniel Gjelten, Director University Libraries,
  University of St. Thomasdrgjelten_at_stthomas.edu
• Jeffrey Scherer, Principal, Meyer, Scherer,
  Rockcastle, Ltd Jeffrey_at_msrltd.com
• Lisa Burke, Information Architect, Web Media
  Serviceslkburke_at_stthomas.edu