Tag Archives: space

Creating Spaces for Community and Connection 

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Nancy Turner

The crowds are back! For ALA’s annual conference, almost 16,000 registrants gathered at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center. The return to fully in-person meetings, coupled with sessions on the new hybrid work environment, has me revisiting the question of how … Continue reading →

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Improving on the Charles Library Welcome 

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Nancy Turner

Walking into the vast atrium space of Charles Library is awe-inspiring. It can also be overwhelming, particularly to new students when the semester first starts.  While we have many ways of counter-acting that feeling – helpful security guards, Emily Schiller’s … Continue reading →

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Envisioning our Future: The Constant is Change

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Nancy Turner

Last week I shared some highlights of the Envisioning our Future interview project with TULUP staff. In this post I begin to pull together themes that emerged over the course of the project’s three phases: organizational communication, change and connection.   … Continue reading →

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Furniture feedback in Charles Library: part II

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Jacqueline Sipes

Excerpts from the report on the fall 2021 Charles Library furniture study In October of 2021, a variety of new furniture options for Charles Library were placed on display in the first-floor event space. From 8 am to 8 pm, … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 10 Years at Ginsburg: A Time for Review

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Nancy Turner

The Ginsburg Health Sciences Library is celebrating its 10th birthday and used the occasion to conduct an intensive review of current operations and planning for the future. Barbara Kuchan, Director of the Health Sciences Libraries, worked with a team (Patrick … Continue reading →

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Brainstorming New Metrics as We Transition to Charles Library

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Nancy Turner

In less than six months we will be moving into Charles Library, an environment that will transform how we think about libraries and the resources and services it provides. And how we provide access to those resources and services. In … Continue reading →

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Reports from the Field: Assessment Discussion Group at ALA

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Nancy Turner

The ACRL Assessment Discussion Group meeting is always a bright spot at the ALA conference.  The group, with a discussion list of over 400+,  suggests topics of interest: this year we talked about  assessment of space in libraries and how … Continue reading →

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Assessment and Games Intersect with Diamond Eyes

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Nancy Turner

This spring Temple University Libraries commissioned a special project as part of the programming year’s theme of Games and Gaming. Nicole Restaino, Manager of Communications and Public Programming, worked with Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio as they developed a hybrid work … Continue reading →

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