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 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.
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 Strategic Directions
The university library’s five strategy statements expressing how it will serve the campus community.
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 Presentations
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.
