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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Amy Navratil Ciccone
University of Southern California
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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]>
Reply-To: Pollock, Jennifer (pollocjr) <[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*
Head of the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library
for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
University of Cincinnati/College of DAAP
5480 Aronoff Center for Design and Art
PO Box 210016
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0016
513-556-1319
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/daap/
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