Hi Jennifer,

I can elaborate a little more about the spaces in the library here @ LMU- (thanks, Amy!)

The wall talker surfaces in our group study rooms have undoubtedly been one of the most popular features in our new building over the past year. Our 33 group study rooms (most of which are designed for 4, and some for 6) also all include 42" flat screen monitors with hookups so that students can connect their laptops. 4 rooms have special seating and equipment for viewing materials from our media collection, and 2 rooms are set up specifically for listening to audio materials. Also, 3 rooms have a video camera set up to a laptop so that students can record themselves practicing presentations.

I have less enthusiasm for the Steelcase RoomWizard room reservation system (the reservation system Amy mentioned)- if this is something that you are considering I'd be happy to talk with you more about the experiences we've had here with it. In short, it's a system designed for a corporate conference room environment, and scaling it to an academic library feels very much like jamming a square peg into a round hole.

I agree with Amy that the desk systems in our information commons are wonderful- they provide ample room for students to work individually or in groups of up to 3, and provide both privacy and light. I'm pretty sure that they are a product from Steelcase. We also used something similar for individual study carrels.

For more photos, you can look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmulibrary/sets/72157621907332778/

Please feel free to contact me off-list if you have any more questions- I'd be happy to help out!


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On 6/9/10 8:39 AM, "Amy Ciccone" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Jennifer!

I just had a tour of the new Loyola Marymount University Library. There were two things that I especially liked.

The group study room walls were completely covered in white board, not just a single hanging board.  Even one of the hallways is covered with the white board, and they are thinking of having some of the art students use those as surfaces for art works.  They are using an electronic reservation system with LED panels outside each room.

In their information commons, the workstation dividers are opaque white glass, which allow for more light and a feeling of more open space. Even though your project doesn't include an info commons, I thought you might be interested in knowing about this.  If you go to the library's main page (http://library.lmu.edu) there is a changing series of photos, one of which is of the workstations.

Good luck with your project.

Amy

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 Subject:  [ARLIS-L] cutting edge spaces
 Date:  Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:13:32 -0400
 From:  Pollock, Jennifer (pollocjr) <[log in to unmask]> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
 Reply-To:  Pollock, Jennifer (pollocjr) <[log in to unmask]> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
 To:  [log in to unmask]

Collective wisdom,

I'd be interested in knowing what you perceive to be 'cutting edge' as far as art library spaces & technologies are concerned.

We're renovating a couple of group studies and while the furniture is modular Knoll (which is staying) and the technology in one of the rooms works just fine (ceiling mounted projection w/laptop hookups; decent speakers/audio; dvd; vcr) it's all a bit circa 1990's. I'm thinking attractive, high-quality equipment/technology...

I'd love to hear your thoughts and/or see images of what you think is are most excellent spaces and/or technologies suitable for smaller (less than 20) art library group study rooms.

Thanks & be well,
Jen


Jennifer Pollock
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