Library Spaces: from collections to conversations -

what next?

Gina de Alwis Library, Singapore Institute of Management

Global Conference on Emerging Trends in Business

Libraries, 2 - 4 Dec 2015, IIM, Ahmedabad

Overview 1. Background 2. Current trends and studies 3. What next ?

Background

APBSLG* Survey 2015 - Library Spaces

•Downsize/ Move print collection off-site

•Consolidate a few faculty libraries/ convert library to

unmanned learning space

•Renovation

Reconfigure available Space

•Create new learning spaces

Additional Space

•One library model

•User /staff spaces increase

Brand New Space

Current Trends

Facades Service Points

Learning Spaces

New Initiatives Digital Initiatives

Library Facades

Macquarie University, Sydney Transition from old to new

Library Facades

Singapore Institute of

Management

North Carolina State University

Library Interiors

Macquarie University

University of Western Sydney

Service Points

University of Melbourne

University of Western

Sydney

Singapore Institute of Management North Carolina State Uni

Service Points

UOW Learning Co-op @ the Library A collaboration between the Library, Peer Learning, Learning Development, UOW College and Digital Literacies

Learning/ Study Spaces

Singapore Institute of Management

University of Western Sydney

Singapore Management

University

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Individual Learning/Study Spaces

University of Technology Sydney

Collaborative Learning Spaces

Singapore Institute of Management

New Initiatives

Nanyang Technological

University

Stairway to Knowledge- an

installation of selected books

written by SMU faculty.

New Initiatives – Learning Tools for Collaborative Learning

New Initiatives – 24/7 Conveniences

New Initiatives - Off-site Storage

University of Queensland Automated Storage &

Retrieval System

Digital Initiatives

SmartLocker @ SIM

Laptop Vending Machine @ Drexel Univ

Book Dispenser, NTU

Gadget Bar – Martin Luther King Library , DC

Digital Initiatives

Maker Spaces

Google Glass Oculus Rift

Lego Robotics

Razer Hydra

Univ of Nevada, Reno

Digital Initiatives

Charging Stations

Smartstock

Digital Initiatives

Robot-assisted Shelf Reading System

Robots as a teaching tool

Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

North Carolina State University- James Hunt Library

North Carolina State University- James Hunt Library

Creativity Studio Teaching & Visualization Lab

Music Recording Room Games Room Music Recording Room Immersive Theater

North Carolina State University – James Hunt Library

Library Spaces - Design

• Top-down approach

Library Spaces - Design

Ethnographic approach

Behaviour mapping, usability studies, focus groups, photo diaries, etc.

- Foster & Gibbons, 2007

- When? Where? Why?

Ethnographic research at Judge Business School (2015) Priestner, A.

Design Thinking

Finding our way with design thinking at University of Sydney Library (2015) Rebecca Goldsworthy et al

Library Spaces – Design Tools

North Carolina State University

A Practical Guide to Ethnographic Research in Academic Libraries by Andrew Asher and Susan Miller

What next ? 2 Libraries…2 stories

NTU Library Outpost

Hive @ Nanyang Technological

University Library Outpost

NTU Library Outpost

NTU Library Outpost

Univ of Michigan Health Sciences Library

New Taubman Health Sciences Library University of Michigan

Offers

- All digital learning space

- Collaborative classrooms

- Meeting rooms

- High-tech simulated clinic

- Virtual cadaver (Anatomage table)

… and the librarians are now called

Informationists

Collections

Conversations

What next ??

Readings 1. Foster, N. and Gibbons, S. (2007)

The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of

Rochester.

2. Priestner, A. (2015)

Ethnographic research at Judge Business School http://www.ebslg2015.unisg.ch/~/media/internet/content/dateien/unisg/bibliothek/ebslg/02_ethnographic%20research%20at%20cjbs.pdf

3 . Asher, A. and Miller, S. (2011)

A practical guide to ethnographic research in academic

libraries http://www.erialproject.org/wp-

content/uploads/2011/03/Toolkit-3.22.11.pdf

Readings 4. Libraries and maker-culture: a resource guide

http://library-maker-culture.weebly.com/makerspaces-in-libraries.html

5. Framework for space planning in the MIT Libraries: Phase One

(2012)

https://libraries.mit.edu/future-spaces/files/2014/09/Shepley-PhaseOne.pdf

6. Learning space toolkit

http://learningspacetoolkit.org/about/

Thank You

ginadealwis@ymail.com