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Seven Simple Steps to Transform Your Library
The Learning Commons
Seven Simple Steps to Transform Your Library
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This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons.
The goal of the learning-commons strategy is to provide a centralized, "go-to" location for all users seeking help on the complex issues of teaching, researching, and being a global citizen in our changing world. A library organized around the learning-commons construct fosters collaborative work and social interaction between users during research and learning. This paradigm also encourages use of innovative technologies and information resources. Transforming a traditional library into a thriving learning commons does take some planning and effort, however.
Each of the seven chapters in this book explains a simple step that a librarian can take to improve their facility. Photographs and concrete examples of the suggested strategies are included; checklists at the end of each chapter serve as indicators for measuring progress. This text is useful for library administrators in school settings (both public and private, K-12) as well as academic, public, and special libraries.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Step One: User-Centered
2 Step Two: Flexible
3 Step Three: Repetitive Questions
4 Step Four: Join Resources
5 Step Five: Remove Barriers
6 Step Six: Trust Your Users
7 Step Seven: Publicize
Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Index
Product details
Published | Jan 31 2011 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 132 |
ISBN | 9781598845174 |
Imprint | Libraries Unlimited |
Illustrations | 38 bw illus |
Dimensions | 11 x 8 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

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