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The Learning Commons
Seven Simple Steps to Transform Your Library
The Learning Commons
Seven Simple Steps to Transform Your Library
Description
This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons.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 | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 132 |
ISBN | 9781598845181 |
Imprint | Libraries Unlimited |
Illustrations | 38 bw illus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

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