Library Buildings

This article focuses on designing learning commons study spaces that are responsive to user needs at a university library.

The library as a place to study is shown to be a complex topic, with noise, need, and personal preference influencing experience.

Discusses the preferences, habits, and needs of graduate students as they relate to spaces for research and study.

A new report is out from Project Information Literacy. Make sure you read it before you get too far into a library renovation.

This article found that the library should cast its net as wide as possible when assessing user needs.

Despite the digital shift, university libraries have grown in importance as places where students come to learn.

Quoted from the website - "Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) have joined forces to provide a basic framework for architects, planners, and librarians embarking on the planning and design of libraries for higher education. This Guide will provide information for thinking about the design of new and renovated library space, and point toward additional resources that can support, inform and enhance the academic library design process."

Covers learning space design in colleges and universities.

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Crump, M. J., Freund, L. L., & Carrico, S. (2012). Meeting the needs of student users in academic libraries: Reaching across the great divide. Oxford, UK: Chandos Pub.