DC Information Commons – Project Update to Library Staff

Anne FullertonChair, DCIC Planning Team

July 17, 2003

Planning is

a series of approximations to a moving target.

Library Planning AssociatesBuilding Program Update.

Cambridge [Mass] Public Library

Work Completed

Needs analysis undergrad users (Systems Design Engineering 348 project)

Model 1 layout 4 images for fundraising brochure (entrance, service desk, teaching lab, seating)

Cost estimatesStaging

Undergrad Needs (SDE 348 surveys)

More natural light & reliable carrel lightWell defined noisy & quiet study areasLarger carrelsMore seating options and capacityBookable spaceCoffee shop; 24/7 area…….

Computer Hub

Carrels – q

uiet stu

dy

Glass enter/ exit

Info & Circ desks side by

side

Express workstations

Stacks rotated, pcs in stacks

Teaching Lab

Staff offices

Group study tables and rooms

Copiers

Entrance/Exit

User Services/Info Desks

Seating Options

Teaching Lab

Costs (examples)

Library entrance $172K10 group study rooms $175KLaptop lending $195KTeaching Lab $370K

Work In Progress

Tasks in detail – who, what, whenModel 1 feedback - Library staff & UsersProject architectDiscuss issues/implications of consolidating public service points laptop lending student staffing – computer hub

Funding to Date: $1million

• Computing hub (furniture)

• Express terminals (furniture)

• Service desk (furniture)

• Stacks rearrangement• Compact shelving

(lower floor)• Architect's fees• Carpeting• Staffing

Public Announcement – October 28, 2003

Questions, Comments?

Email us:libDInfoCom@library.uwaterloo.ca

Website:

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/infocommons/

A Teaching & Learning Library has:

Extensive power & data gridsE-classroom Wired study spacesAppropriate ambient illuminationErgonomic computer furnitureGroup study optionsInformation commons

Bazillion & Braun. Academic Libraries as High-Tech Gateways

What’s an Information Commons?

Full service computersHuman help Access to all formats of the collectionDefined space

What they said about DC in 1988

Conspicuous symbol of the future & the advance of technologyInterior suggests a controlled celebration of technologyColour is a metaphor for the visual world of the computer monitor