Jen LaMaster

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Indianapolis

LIBRARIES IN SPACE

Library of Celsus: Ephesus

INFOWHELM AND INFORMATION FLUENCY

SO WHAT DO WE DO?

Context

Experience

ReflectionUse

Evaluation

CONTEXT

• What communities are present in the school?

• How are they articulated now, 3 years from now? 15years from now?

• Interactive strategies to build relationships between stakeholders. This is the new job of the librarian…

• Imagine….

If someone walked into your library right now, what 3 things would stick in their minds?

The relationship between the material practices and the symbolic meanings that social agents attach to their spatial environments.

Image: Seattle Public Library

Thus the meaning of a text is not as much a quality of the text itself as it is an experience in the mind of the user.

- Ole Jensen

Discourse Analysis and SocioSpatial Transformation Processes

Image: Aarhaus Library

• Imagine…

How do you connect the dots between your work and student learning?

Between your work and school mission?

Between your work and those things that keep your Principal and AP up at night?

SO HOW DID WE GET HERE?

School Media Center 70s

The goal of the school library media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access “to books and reading, to information, and to information technology.”AASL

Image: University of London

80’s and 90’s Information Commons“a cluster of network access points and associated IT tools situated in the context of physical, digital, human and social resources organized in support of learning” Beagle and Bennett

Image: IU Bloomington Fine Arts Library

EXPERIENCE

• Physical

• Virtual

• Communal

• The Learning Commons

2000s Learning Commons

The Learning Commons is an evolution of the Information Commons in which the basic tenets of the Information Commons are enhanced and expanded upon in order to create and environment more centered on the creations of knowledge and self-directed learning.

_ Heitsche and Holley

Image: Dennison University

THE PHYSICAL

• The practical workings within…

• Computer hardware/software, furnishings, designated spaces and traditional collections

• Early libraries created to support the reader, then as they grew the focus was on supporting the collections… now shifting back to focus on the learners.

Device, wireless, printing

Computer hardware

Furniture

Designated spaces to build, practice, create

THE VIRTUAL

• Beyond four walls and a roof…

• Digital library collections, online tools, electronic learning tools and Web presences (portal, website, social media)

LMS, social media, Google Apps for Education

Online tools

Digital textbooks, databases

Electronic content

THE COMMUNAL

• “Sites and places are never just locations. They are always sites for something and someone. ‘Spirit of the Place’ subjected meaning that is contextually located in the community.”

Rob Shields “Places on the Margins”

• Workshops, tutoring programs, research collaborations, mission and identity, IT support

Mission and Identity

Image: JSEA

Access, Evaluate, Use

School Academic Objective

Best practices in teaching and learning… and raising children

Professional Development

BREBEUF’S LEARNING COMMONS

• Remember – a media booth does not turn a student into a scholar… that begins to happen when pedagogy, design and reconceptualized library services come together

• Learning is not training… it is understanding and insight

REFLECTION

• What’s it take?

• Democratic Planning Processes – lots of stakeholder voices must be heard

• Time

• Surveys of need

Imagine…

• How will you make sure everyone who walks into your library sees the focus on students? Not stuff, not the view… students.

WORKS• Educause,”7 things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons”

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7071.pdf

• AASL. Standards for the 21st Century Learner. http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards-guidelines#standards

• Heitsch, E and Holley, R. “The Information and Learning Commons: Some Reflections” New Reciew of Academic Librarianship, 17:64-77, 2011

• Beagle, Donald Robert. The Information Commons Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2006. Print.

• Donald Beagle (2010): The Emergent Information Commons: Philosophy, Models, and 21st Century Learning Paradigms, Journal of Library Administration, 50:1, 7-26

• Bennett, Scott. “The Information or the Learning Commons: Which Will We Have?” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34.3 (2008): 183–85. Print.

• Worm-Petersen, Kasper. “Democratization of Design.” GRASP (11/7/13) http://grasp.dk/democratization-of-design/

• Eidson, Diana. “The Celsus Library at Ephasus: Spatial Rhetoric, Literacy and Hegemony in the Eastern Roman Empire.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric (2013) Vol 16, Issue 2.

• Shields, Robert. Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity. London:Routledge (1992).

• Healey, Patricia. “The communicative Work of Development Plans, Environment and Planning.” Planning and Design. 1993, Col 20 (1), p 83-105.

• Jensen, Ole. Discourse Analysis and Sociospatial Transformation Processes. School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Global Urban Research Unity. Electronc Working Paper 28. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/guru/assets/documents/ewp28.pdf

• Most photos personally owned. Examples of school libraries over time:

• 1970’s: University of London Medical Library http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/medical-history/clinical-later.shtml

• Information Common: IU Bloomington Fine Arts Library http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IUB_-_Fine_Arts_Library_-_P1100227.JPG

• Learning Commons: Denison University http://www.designgroup.us.com/our-work/libraries/images/denison_university/04_dul.jpg