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/
