planning collaborative spaces in libraries an overview of strategies, facilities, and services

Planning Collaborative

Spaces in Libraries

An Overview of

Strategies, Facilities, and Services

CNI/ACRL PreconferenceJune 20, 2003

Collaborative Spacesrequire:

• A distinct physical space

• Participation by two or more campus units

• Staff members dedicated to collaborative work


Collaborative Spacescan be:

• Information Commons• Digital Library Centers• Centers for Instructional or Faculty Development• Centers or Classrooms for Instructional Delivery• Facilities for Multi-Media Production• Facilities for Multi-Media Delivery• Centers for Distance Education


Large and Small Institutions are Creating Collaborative

Spaces

• Research Universities

• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Community Colleges


Research Universities:U. of Arizona’s Integrated Learning Centerincludes classrooms, a freshman center, digital media

resource center, and auditoriums.


Liberal Arts Colleges:Vassar’s Media Cloisters

can be used for digital video, digital imaging, 3D rendering and animation, complex 2D animation, dynamic and database driven web development.


Liberal Arts Colleges: Santa Clara University’s

Library for the 21st Century (2006)


Community Colleges:Brookdale (NJ) Community College’s

Information Commonsincludes individual work stations, classrooms,

and a media authoring station.


Planning Strategies:Diverse Visions

Shared goals of all collaborative spaces:

• Deliver content and services related to digital technology (networking)

• Institute collaboration among various units or professional groups in planning and staffing


Diverse Visions:U. of Tennessee’s Digital Media Service

“The Office of Research and Information Technology (ORIT) and the

UT Libraries have joined to create the Digital Media Service (DMS).”

“The goal of DMS is to become the "one-stop shop" for digital media needs on campus. The primary role of DMS is digitization, storage, and delivery of audio, video, images, and text. DMS also assists customers in securing copyright permissions and offers referrals to related media production and technology services.”


Diverse Visions: Vassar’s Media Cloisters

The Cloisters serves as the "public sphere" for networked interaction, the gathering place for students, professors, and librarians engaged in planning, evaluating, and reviewing the efforts of research and study utilizing the whole range of technologies of literacy. In this way, the Cloisters channels flows of research, learning and teaching between the increasingly networked world of the library and the intimacy and engagementof our classrooms and other campus spaces.

In the Cloisters, course development, class-based projects, and research necessarily become communal, interactive processes, engaging colleagues, students, information specialists, and a networked world of like-minded scholars, artists and media practitioners in active "programming" and explorations.


Diverse Visions: U. Toronto’s Information Commons

Vision Statement: “The Information Commons enables and facilitates access to information

resources through technology to strengthen teaching, learning and research at the University of Toronto.”


Sizing Up the Space

Collaborative spaces can be:

• Large-scale suites providing a variety of services

• Smaller spaces focusing on one or two services


Large Facilities:Dartmouth’s Baker Berry Library


Large Facilities:U. Georgia’s Student Learning Center

(scheduled to open Summer 2003)


Large Facilities:U.Toronto’s Information Commons

• New Media Suites• Digital Studio• Public Access Facility


Smaller Facilities:Dickinson College’s

Waidner-Spaher LibraryFeatures a collaborative classroom for up to 24

students (below left) and a commons area with 16 individual work stations (below right)


Smaller Facilities:Wellesley College’s

Knapp Media & Technology Center


Goalsof Collaborative Spaces:




Delivering Content and Services:Individual Work Stations

University of Washington Libraries

Media Center and Digital Audio Workstation


Delivering Content and Services:Individual Work Stations

University of Oregon’s

Knight Library Information Technology Center

and Science Library Information Technology Center


Delivering Content and Services:Facilities for Students and Faculty

with DisabilitiesOregon State University’s Information Commons


Delivering Content and Services: Spaces to Facilitate Student Collaboration

University of Washington’s

Collaboration “Pods”



University of Chicago’s

USITE Crerar Center

Collaboration Booths and Floor Plan



University of Georgia’s

Student Learning Center


Delivering Content and Services:Centers for Instructional

and Faculty Development

University of Arizona

Learning Technologies Center• Assessment Planning• Creative Imaging• Conference Planning• Grant Support• Instructional Design• Technical Troubleshooting




University of Oregon’s

Faculty Center

for Instructional Innovation




Northwestern University’s 2East


Delivering Content and Services:Centers for Instructionaland Faculty Development

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

• Distance Learning• Instructional Development and Design• Video Production• Web Course Development

and more


Delivering Content and Services:Classrooms to Enhance

Student-Faculty interaction

Oregon State University’s Autzen Electronic Classroom


Delivering Content and Services:Classroom Spaces

Dickinson College’s Librarians use the electronic classroom to introduce visiting high school students to new resources.


Delivering Content and Services:Classroom Spaces

University of Arizona’s

Integrated Learning Center


Goalsof Collaborative Spaces:




Staff Collaboration University of Southern IllinoisInstructional Support Services


Staff CollaborationNorthwestern University

Academic Technologies: Facilitating Faculty Projects


Staff Collaboration Vassar’s Media Cloisters

Projects are communal efforts, involving students, faculty, information technologists, artists, and a range of scholars.


Collaborative Facilities Web Site:

A project of CNI and Dartmouth Collegehttp://www.dartmouth.edu/~collab/

planning collaborative spaces in libraries an overview of strategies, facilities, and services

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