Creating a Learning Commons: A Practical Guide for Librarians [Paperback]

Creating a Learning Commons: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides experienced and detailed research-based guidance for academic librarians and other professionals charged with creating a learning commons. Readers can follow the entire process of developing a library learning commons design and implementation plan from inception to post-occupancy planning and assessment.

This practical guide is designed to help librarians develop sound strategies for navigating the challenging issues that often emerge in launching a dynamic and collaborative new library learning commons space within a university or college setting.
Lampert and Meyers-Martin provide a practical guide, complete with examples and photos of award-winning learning commons designs. This book will help dedicated professionals identify best practices within todays existing learning commons settings and get up to speed on how to best approach developing their own librarys new and innovative learning spaces.

Lynn D. Lampert is the coordinator of information literacy and instruction at California State University (CSU)Northridge. Lynn served as a key member of the Oviatt Librarys Learning Commons Planning Team, which managed the $2.5 million learning commons renovation project. Lynn also helped develop and design the learning commonss new makerspace area, which opened to students in the fall of 2014.

Coleen Meyers-Martin is coordinator of outreach services at the California State University (CSU)Northridges Oviatt Library. In 2013, she coordinated a multifaceted marketing campaign that promoted the Librarys $2.5 million learning commons renovation to students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Those considering the daunting task of remodeling an academic library to create or redo a learning commons will find this volume tremendously helpful. Lampert (coordinator of information literacy) and Meyers-Martin (coordinator of outreach svcs., both California State UnilÃ"