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The Library as place: what users want from libraries

Dr Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

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Contents

1. UCL and UCL Library Services

2. Master Planning exercise

3. Selected Issue Collections spaces and learning spaces

4. Conclusions?

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Master Planning exercise

Integral to Library Strategy

10 over-arching goals

Supporting the student experience

E-development

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtml

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Estate issues

Master Plan Report See http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5048/ and http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5051/

Do Nothing is not an option Refurbish/enlarge existing estate Newbuild, bringing together a number of scattered libraries Work undertaken by BDP (Building Design Partnership)

See http://www.bdp.co.uk User survey elicited 2,940 responses

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/buildsurvey2007.shtml

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Option 1: UCL Main Library

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Option 1: UCL Main Library

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Twenty-first century learning spaces?

Curriculum in Science, Technology and Medicine Expects students to work in groups and to undertake projects Students are expected to use more than books and journals

Digital tools Photography Video Sound recordings FilmImagesWebsites, blogs, wikis etc.

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E-Learning spaces

Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University

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UCL Science Library –Learning Laboratory

Flexible seating

Flexible seating

Enlarged entrance

30 new PCs

RFID Self Issue/Return

Collocated computer support

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UCL Library Services Learning Laboratory

24-hr opening of library and collections in exam term 30 extra networked PCs to add to 150+ already available Radio networking throughout the space Flexible seating, which students can re-arrange, for group work RFID technology for whole bookstock for self-issue/self-return Enlarged entrance to cope with 4,000 users a day in term Co-location of Help Desk from Information Systems (Computing

Services) to provide 1-stop shop for users

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And finally…

And now… Over to Kaisa

Sinikara For Case study from Helsinki University

Donaldson Reading Room, UCL Main Library