Northwestern University’s

Partnerships for Success

EDUCAUSE MidWestRegional Conference

March 17, 2008

Working jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor

The process by which people/organizations work together to accomplish a common mission

Shared control over decisionmaking Work that is done jointly to improve the efforts of

all The process people with different ways of seeing

the world interact to learn from each other in order to get better at what ever they are trying to do

Growing imperative in higher ed More productive use of space and

resources Enhanced student learning New perspectives on service

Faculty in the classroom Academic departments Administrative departments Information Technology department

In the library On campus In the classroom When renovation is taking place

Location: Evanston, north suburb of Chicago

15,700 FTE students Doctoral/Research Universities–Extensive Library

One main building; two branch libraries (one in Chicago)

278 staff 4.6 million volumes Open 122 hours/week

Writing Center Writing Place Career Services Career Lab School of Continuing Studies (Chicago)

Writing Place Math Place

Project Café Project Café Training Rooms

WCAS faculty Pilot project for info lit

2East is a Northwestern University faculty resource center located on the 2nd floor, East tower of the University Library

Established to promote scholary technologies and bibliographic resourse activities

NUL’s Digital Media services, Collection management, and NUIT’s Academic Technologies

Digital projects Course-management software Faculty workshops on technology Presentation on technology applications

Melville J. Herskovits, Maps of Africa digitization project

Partnership of Digital Media Services, Collections Management, Academic Technologies

Program offered jointly by the the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Academic Technologies, and the University Library

Workshop format and is held over five consecutive days

Faculty must be nominated by their chairs or deans in order to participate in the program

Specifically intended for NU faculty who want to take advantage of the teaching and research capabilities of digital media, course management systems, online archives, advanced visualization technologies, electronic journals, and other emerging technologies

Partnership between NUL Digital Media Services and Academic Technologies

Initial project funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

Winterton Collection of East African photographs: 7,610 photographs depicting life in East Africa between the 1860s and 1960s

Partnership between Library and NUIT Collaborative space Highly desirable space at library

entrance Test bed for new technologies First stop for all patrons Shared staffing

5100 sq. ft Phase One: Summer and Fall 2004

complete renovation infrastructure and carpeting installed

Phase Two: Winter 2005 furniture installed official opening

Phase Three: Summer 2005 completion of Group Project Room

Cultural differences Changed expectations Expect the unexpected Good model for new space “We love it when a plan comes

together”

TE + IE = S Growth on both sides Model for future learning and

collaboration spaces

Renovation of Science and Engineering Library (North Campus)

Renovation and repurposing of Schaffner Library (Chicago Campus)

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Bob Davis, Associate DirectorAcademic Technologiesb-davis@northwestern.edu

Denise Shorey, Head of ReferenceUniversity Libraryd-shorey@northwestern.edu

Slide presentation at depot.northwestern.edu/~rda164/Partners

Case study in Learning Spaceswww.educause.edu/learningspaces

InfoCommons websiteinfocommons.northwestern.edu

Copyright Bob Davis and Denise Shorey, 2008

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