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Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Library as Learning Commons

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From Volume 46 Number 3 | April–June 2018
By Derek Jones, Andrew Grote
Planning Types: Campus Planning

Institutions referenced in this resource:
Wentworth Institute of Technology

Following decades of decline in perceived status and value, the university library has found new life as a center of the knowledge economy, of collaborative learning, and of creative production. The challenge of updating the library mission for the digital age is further complicated when that library resides within a 1960s Brutalist concrete structure. The revitalization of the Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons at the Wentworth Institute of Technology illustrates the process of transforming a foreboding, bunker-like space into a modern, vibrant campus destination.

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