Emerging Commons ALA 2012

The Evolving Learning Commons

The Evolving Learning Commons

ALA 2012ALA 2012

ScopeScope

Traditional modelTraditional model

•Collections focused

•Authoritarian

• Individuals

•Reading

•Quiet

•Hostile to food and drink

•Collections focused

•Authoritarian

• Individuals

•Reading

•Quiet

•Hostile to food and drink

Commons modelCommons model

•User focused

•Egalitarian

•Groups

•Doing

•Social

•Open to food and drink

•User focused

•Egalitarian

•Groups

•Doing

•Social

•Open to food and drink

Information CommonsInformation Commons

•Technology spaces

•Learning spaces

•Social spaces

•Food

•Co-location rather than integration

•Technology spaces

•Learning spaces

•Social spaces

•Food

•Co-location rather than integration

Learning CommonsLearning Commons

•Strong partnerships

•Library

•Campus Information Technology

•Faculty

•Students

•Strong partnerships

•Library

•Campus Information Technology

•Faculty

•Students

Ray OldenbergThe Great Good Place

Ray OldenbergThe Great Good Place

•First: Home

•Second: Work

•Third: Community

•Accessible

•Egalitarian

•Organic

•First: Home

•Second: Work

•Third: Community

•Accessible

•Egalitarian

•Organic

Gibbs et al.“Special Places for Students: Third Place and Restorative Place” College Student Journal

44, no. 4 (December 2010): 906-912.

Gibbs et al.“Special Places for Students: Third Place and Restorative Place” College Student Journal

44, no. 4 (December 2010): 906-912.

•Third Place

•Comfortable

•Place of retreat

•Place of community

•≥ weekly: 74%

•Third Place

•Comfortable

•Place of retreat

•Place of community

•≥ weekly: 74%

Restorative Place

•Apart

•Different

•Compatible

≥ weekly: 67%

Restorative Place

•Apart

•Different

•Compatible

≥ weekly: 67%

ActivitiesActivities

•Third Place (n=91)

•Socializing: 77

•Eating/drinking: 62

•Studying: 52

•Playing: 10

•Third Place (n=91)

•Socializing: 77

•Eating/drinking: 62

•Studying: 52

•Playing: 10

Restorative Place (n=67)

•Studying: 36

•Playing: 15

•Socializing: 14

•Eating/drinking: 11

Restorative Place (n=67)

•Studying: 36

•Playing: 15

•Socializing: 14

•Eating/drinking: 11

Be flexibleBe flexible

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4th floor, 2011 4th floor, 2012

Art in the library

4th floor, 20114th floor, 2011

Silent study

Facilitate collaborationFacilitate collaboration

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Geometry User-defined spaces

Mobility Power

It’s their library,we just work hereIt’s their library,

we just work here•Make student

success a core value

• Invest in assessment

•Develop partnerships

•Understand and facilitate social learning

•Make student success a core value

• Invest in assessment

•Develop partnerships

•Understand and facilitate social learning