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(3 of 6) The City Revisited: Community and Community Action in the 21st Century

This seminar explores contemporary issues concerning community, community action, and community change. ·      Nancy Aardema, Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association ·      Joel Bookman, Director of Programs, Local Initia...

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(2 of 6) The City Revisited: Community and Community Action in the 21st Century

This seminar explores contemporary issues concerning community, community action, and community change. ·      Nancy Aardema, Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association ·      Joel Bookman, Director of Programs, Local Initia...

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(1 of 6) The City Revisited: Community and Community Action in the 21st Century

This seminar explores contemporary issues concerning community, community action, and community change. ·      Nancy Aardema, Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association ·      Joel Bookman, Director of Programs, Local Initia...

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Spinning Straw into Gold: A Twenty First Century Library Transformation

Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York serves a population of over 12,000 students. When we began to see that our two floor library was not adequately meeting student needs wedecided to create an environment conducive to bo...

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Where the Sidewalk SHOULD Have Been: Following the Paths of Library Clients

The adaptadriven phystion of library spaces by implementing small-scale, user-driven physical changes to the user environment. This involved the refurbishing and the redesign of antiquated resources within the constraint of a limitedbudget. The desire...

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Academic Library Redesign Literally on Less Than a Dime

Black Hawk College Library redesigned its reading and circulation desk areas by trading their spaces. The suggestion for the redesign was made by a LIS graduate student from UW-Madison who was completing her required practicum hours at BHC in fall ter...

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Slice of Pizza and a Turnstile: Catalysts for Change

A decade ago, today's notion of learning spaces was largely theoretical. The paradigms of "smart" classrooms and computer labs were the models of the day -- simply add technology to a space and that would transform learning. What we didn't ful...

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Hi-Tech Spaces at Michigan State University Libraries

In the past four years Michigan State University Libraries have designed, constructed, created, and evaluated six small collaborative technology labs in our Main Library, four in our Engineering Branch, and one in our Business Library. In the Main Lib...

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User-initiated Repurposing of Library Space

The Galter Health Sciences Library initiated a series of small-scale, low-cost approaches to space renovation, all driven by the daily behavior of its users. Starting with the concept of "connection", electricity and online access was expanded, levera...

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Open Wide, Say AHHHHH!: 4 years of reconfiguring the UC San Diego Science & Engineering Library

At the UC San Diego Science & Engineering Library (S&E) we have reconfigured spaces, services, and collections in a series of small-scale renovations over the past four years. The result of these iterative changes is improved access to services and co...

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