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DC Information Commons – Project Update to Library Staff. Anne Fullerton Chair, DCIC Planning Team July 17, 2003. Planning is. a series of approximations to a moving target. Library Planning Associates Building Program Update. Cambridge [Mass] Public Library. Work Completed.
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DC Information Commons –Project Update to Library Staff Anne Fullerton Chair, DCIC Planning Team July 17, 2003
Planning is a series of approximations to a moving target. Library Planning Associates Building Program Update. Cambridge [Mass] Public Library
Work Completed • Needs analysis undergrad users (Systems Design Engineering 348 project) • Model 1 layout • 4 images for fundraising brochure (entrance, service desk, teaching lab, seating) • Cost estimates • Staging
Undergrad Needs (SDE 348 surveys) • More natural light & reliable carrel light • Well defined noisy & quiet study areas • Larger carrels • More seating options and capacity • Bookable space • Coffee shop; 24/7 area…….
Carrels – quiet study Group study tables and rooms Copiers Staff offices Computer Hub Express workstations Teaching Lab Glass enter/ exit Info & Circ desks side by side Stacks rotated, pcs in stacks
Costs (examples) Library entrance $172K 10 group study rooms $175K Laptop lending $195K Teaching Lab $370K
Work In Progress • Tasks in detail – who, what, when • Model 1 feedback - Library staff & Users • Project architect • Discuss issues/implications of • consolidating public service points • laptop lending • student staffing – computer hub
Computing hub (furniture) Express terminals (furniture) Service desk (furniture) Stacks rearrangement Compact shelving (lower floor) Architect's fees Carpeting Staffing Funding to Date: $1million Public Announcement – October 28, 2003
Questions, Comments? • Email us: libDInfoCom@library.uwaterloo.ca • Website: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/infocommons/
A Teaching & Learning Library has: • Extensive power & data grids • E-classroom • Wired study spaces • Appropriate ambient illumination • Ergonomic computer furniture • Group study options • Information commons Bazillion & Braun. Academic Libraries as High-Tech Gateways
What’s an Information Commons? • Full service computers • Human help • Access to all formats of the collection • Defined space
What they said about DC in 1988 • Conspicuous symbol of the future & the advance of technology • Interior suggests a controlled celebration of technology • Colour is a metaphor for the visual world of the computer monitor