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Library Planning

Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Academic Library Makerspaces

 Built on the authors’ wide-ranging examination of the literature and examples drawn from a variety of higher education institutions, this book offers a detailed roadmap of steps and strategies for planning these facilities and successfully integrating them into the academic fabric of an institution.
Conference Presentations

Campus Library Planning to Meet Evolving Student Needs

 Libraries impact every student on campus, and as neutral third spaces, libraries are positioned to provide services equitably. Today's library services have expanded from the traditional book stacks to include a range of diverse resources.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | Temple University

 Our tour guides will walk you through this international award-winning facility to share the thought process behind the design, project challenges and solutions, and provide an update on how the library has performed since its opening in Fall 2019.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Change and Renewal for Existing Campus Libraries

 Renovating an existing academic library to meet 21st-century needs requires rethinking both its program and design to create a vibrant, welcoming campus hub for all.
Conference Presentations

Delivering a Renovated Learning Commons for an Engaged Academic Community
Conference Presentations

Designing Between the Books for Belonging and Mattering in University Libraries

 Institutions can move beyond design project engagement activities by actively collaborating with students to explore issues of belonging and mattering to make more meaningful design choices.
Webinar Recordings

Libraries in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

 How can institutions leverage librarians as educational partners, complementing the classroom experience, to ensure students from all walks of life have a strong net of academic support?
Webinar Recordings

Libraries in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

 In a climate of anti-intellectualism, institutions of higher education remain committed to making knowledge accessible and translating research to help solve society’s pressing challenges. Libraries have long served as stewards of research publications and creative academic output, facilitating access. How are they serving both as advisors to help scholars and students be more productive in accessing and utilizing scholarship throughout the research cycle, and as institutional partners to ensure their university’s research output is globally findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable towards the aim of greater open access, and impact?
Webinar Recordings

Libraries in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

 In what ways will libraries continue to be the intellectual hubs where users interact with ideas in both physical and virtual environments to expand learning and facilitate the creation of new knowledge?
Example Plans

Library and Technology Services 2016–2020 Strategic Plan Website

 Strategic plan detailing goals and initiatives of the Library and Technology Services unit.
Example Plans

Library Strategic Directions

 The university library’s five strategy statements expressing how it will serve the campus community.
Example Plans

Mission and Governance Web Page

 Mission, governance, and values statements for the library.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Positioning Collegiate Libraries for the Future

 A community college library uses existing funding to renovate for community space—simultaneously positioning it for integration with a currently unfunded master planning process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Priorities For Academic Libraries
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Library as Learning Commons

 Even in the digital age, the library plays a fundamental role in campus life and learning, particularly when it’s updated to meet the needs of 21st-century students and pedagogies.
Conference Recordings

The Library in Transition

 The transformation of CCP's library will aid a diverse student body with learning, tutoring, research, and social spaces—learn from this project and discover methods to help your students achieve educational success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The New Frontier

 U-M’s libraries are not just flourishing, they’re futuristic—embracing the latest technologies and trends in design while maintaining their ultimate mission of enabling and empowering discovery.
Conference Presentations

Throw Out Your Books

 This session will use recent library projects to study the effect of major program shifts on student behavior and discourse.