Groundbreaking for the Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons will be Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI.
From all indications, this is going to be a new benchmark for the integrated learning commons. The video gives a detailed picture of a wonderfully rich environment for all kinds of learning: collaborative, technological, scholarly. It won't be finished until 2013, but look in on the website now and then to see how it's coming along.
And this video was produced by Steelcase after the project was completed.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Race to Bookless
It used to be that when you wanted to take the measure of an academic library you asked, "How many volumes does it have?" That question seems to have been stood on its head. In the "race to bookless" the University of Texas at San Antonio has claimed victory. The Applied Engineering and Technology Library opened on September 8, 2010, claiming to be "the nation's first completely bookless library on a college or university campus." Although it is relatively small (80 person capacity), it does have "similar features to what are commonly called 'information commons,'" according to the report in LJ.
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