{"id":652,"date":"2018-09-24T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/?p=652"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:21:07","slug":"setting-the-path-towards-a-new-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/2018\/09\/24\/setting-the-path-towards-a-new-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Path towards a New Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_653\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"wp-image-653\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/airport-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/airport-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/airport-768x1141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/airport-689x1024.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8220;Link&#8221; at the Calgary Airport<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week I had an unexpected 12 hours to spend at the Calgary International Airport, providing me plenty of time to consider all that I learned at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucalgary.ca\/utoday\/issue\/2018-09-20\/calgary-head-list-library-cities-around-world\">Designing Libraries conference.<\/a>\u00a0 While the airport provided fun rides between terminals and the wi-fi was robust, the distractions (like food, bookstores, cozy chairs), unfortunately,\u00a0 were minimal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Designing Libraries<\/strong> brings librarians, researchers, designers, planners and architects together to discuss the future of libraries, particularly how new technologies support new ways of doing research and supporting students in their learning. The conference is currently sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), North Carolina State University Libraries, and the University of Calgary Libraries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joan Lippincott (CNI) summed up the key discussion threads in this way: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Integrating our thinking about what we want users to be able to do in relation to space<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Articulating more clearly the relationship of programs to institutional priorities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And we have a growing \u201cappetite\u201d for digging deeper into post-occupancy assessment. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joan was persistent in asking those hard questions of assessment: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you demonstrate how the new space relates to the creation on new knowledge?\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How are spaces contributing to learning? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you determine impact, either quantitatively or qualitatively?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assessment is a topic I\u2019d like to see addressed again at future conferences, and something we need to plan for at Temple as we near the opening of the Charles Library. \u00a0Assessment is important because it requires us to consider, before any project is initiated, what it is we want to accomplish with the new space, the new service, the new resources?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As we plan for the opening of the Charles Library, let&#8217;s ask:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are our new expectations for the building, and the kind of research, learning, and partnerships it will support?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>What does that kind of engagement on the part of faculty, students and staff look like?<\/li>\n<li>While we&#8217;re focusing on the digital scholarship and instruction aspects of the space,\u00a0 what are the other opportunities for assessment? What are the different ways the collection is being used?\u00a0 More use of electronic? \u00a0Less use of the physical collection, or different parts of the physical collection? Is this due to the different access, or is it due to different discovery opportunities?<\/li>\n<li>Certainly, we anticipate opportunities for collaboration and communication within the space. How else might the building facilitate a different kind of organizational culture?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greg Raschke said of the Hunt Library at NCSU (a Snohetta project, like the Charles Library)\u00a0 \u201cHunt was a meteorite opportunity. If you miss it, it will set you back. If you overdo it, you can always scale back, but if you miss that opportunity for change, you\u2019ll never get there. Use failures and successes as a way of evolving your organization.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Architect Craig Dykers, of Snohetta, also spoke of the transformative value of the library &#8211; it can be a place for both safe dialog AND disagreement; both a welcoming space AND a challenging one. The library is something always transforming, but should serve as a transformational space as well.\u00a0 Sort of like the path along Calgary&#8217;s Bow River.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/Path-along-the-bow-river.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-image-654\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/Path-along-the-bow-river-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/Path-along-the-bow-river-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/Path-along-the-bow-river-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/files\/2018\/09\/Path-along-the-bow-river-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Path along the Bow River, Calgary.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had an unexpected 12 hours to spend at the Calgary International Airport, providing me plenty of time to consider all that I learned at the Designing Libraries conference.\u00a0 While the airport provided fun rides between terminals and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/2018\/09\/24\/setting-the-path-towards-a-new-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[9,14,88,67],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-reports","category-organization-culture-and-assessment","tag-conferences","tag-culture-of-assessment","tag-facilities","tag-organizational-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}