DesignShare: Imagining the Future of the School Library - 0 views
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edefine their “value-added” qualities.
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Growing affluence means that many readers can and will purchase information rather than borrow it.
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high touch environments
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growing body of research that demonstrates the positive effect of school libraries and school librarians on student reading abilities and academic achievement
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uber information experts.
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virtual environment.
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no good reasons to design school libraries that are based on an outdated model
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nnovative design
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school officials will strive for a philosophical, functional, and physical merger of the school library with the IT program, with a faculty center and spaces for staff development, as well as spaces where teachers can work with (and learn from) students, school librarians, and IT staff; and
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beyond the library walls
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viewed primarily as a cost, rather than as an investment,
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trying to create a good program by simply redesigning space without paying attention to staffing.
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Teaching people to effectively find and use information to meet their needs.”
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the 21st century school library must look beyond tradition to the future, to what is needed to help fulfill the educational mission, goals, and objectives of the school.
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he library will be a sacred space dedicated to honoring those who use the library to meet whatever informational, educational, socialization and personal needs they might have.
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broadest mission
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Today’s library is a learning place, not a warehouse space.
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fluid
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Libraries must be spaces where multiple activities can take place simultaneously.
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ifferent types of environments
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ook at places where kids DO want to be
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brary staff and a library program in place before facility planning
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help as you can from an experienced, reputable school library facility design consultant—
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Involve the stakeholders
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Be adventurous,
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complex
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And I always say, design for the technologies that are available NOW, not those just over the horizon. The horizon might be further away than you anticipate.
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libraries and librarians are needed now more than ever
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a mix of print and non-print materials
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consider providing more space for instructional purposes.
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As much as possible we should be designing flexible spaces so that space required today for book storage can easily be converted for other purposes in the future.
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he emphasis must be on the quality of the collection, not the quantity.
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quiet reflection will remain a need of humans for a very long time.
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Hence our 'requirement' that both teachers and students work on their portfolios at the end of a unit after using the MALT Center.
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The glut of information that keeps expanding overwhelms most people, and libraries and librarians are needed to help guide and teach students and teachers to cope.
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November 2nd, 2006
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knowledge production areas.
