The Learning Commons - Seven Simple Steps to Transform Your Library (Paperback)

This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons. The goal of the learning-commons strategy is to provide a centralized, "go-to" location for all users seeking help on the complex issues of teaching, researching, and being a global citizen in our changing world. A library organized around the learning-commons construct fosters collaborative work and social interaction between users during research and learning. This paradigm also encourages use of innovative technologies and information resources. Transforming a traditional library into a thriving learning commons does take some planning and effort, however. Each of the seven chapters in this book explains a simple step that a librarian can take to improve their facility. Photographs and concrete examples of the suggested strategies are included; checklists at the end of each chapter serve as indicators for measuring progress. This text is useful for library administrators in school settings (both public and private, K-12) as well as academic, public, and special libraries. Includes usable surveys, sample newsletters and library reports, research paper formatting guides, and a highly useful website 38 figures and photographs of actual resources, user-centered design, students utilizing resources, and web design Index facilitates quick reference to specific examples on demand

General

Imprint:	Libraries Unlimited
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Pam Colburn Harland
Dimensions:	278 x 216 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-1-59884-517-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library, archive & information management Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59884-517-9
Barcode:	9781598845174

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