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Study Group On Library Services And Space Report, Paul Mosley, Jim Alderman, Bill Eckert, Michael Kucsak, Hilary Robbeloth
Study Group On Library Services And Space Report, Paul Mosley, Jim Alderman, Bill Eckert, Michael Kucsak, Hilary Robbeloth
Library Commons Project
The Study Group was constituted in March 2012 and charged with examining both library public services and library public spaces with the goals of developing a new service model and adapting existing library space to better serve library clientele’s needs. To those ends, the group has reviewed library use statistics, surveyed articles from the professional literature that review the experiences of other libraries, and made site visits to Florida State University and the University of Central Florida, both of which have recently developed knowledge or learning commons and reexamined their own service models.
Toward A New Service Model, Jim Alderman
Toward A New Service Model, Jim Alderman
Library Commons Project
The Thomas G. Carpenter Library works with a model of Reference service that is fairly traditional in most senses. The Reference Desk is staffed with a combination of professional librarians and para-professionals a set number of hours per week. When the current library facility was planned, the emphasis was on making more and more computers available to library patrons and to place staff near the computers in order to facilitate service provision. That resulted in a large lab of 129 workstations with a student assistant desk nearby and a smaller lab of 40 workstations with the reference/documents service desk nearby. …
Library Survey Spring 2010 Comprehensive Report
Library Survey Spring 2010 Comprehensive Report
Library Commons Project
No abstract provided.
Library Survey Spring 2009 Comprehensive Report
Library Survey Spring 2009 Comprehensive Report
Library Commons Project
No abstract provided.