The choice for learning

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-13

  Bennett, Scott ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 32644481391     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2005.10.013     Document Type: Article

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1. ©Scott Bennett, 2005. Readers of this essay and librarians may copy it without the copyright owner's permission, if the author and publisher are acknowledged in the copy and the copy is used for educational, not-for-profit purposes. A version of this paper was first delivered at the 2005 Roundtable sponsored by the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and the Council on Library and Information Resources.
2. Scott Bennett Libraries Designed for Learning 2003 Council on Library and Information Resources Washington, DC 6-7
3. As does Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are 1963 Harper New York
4. Richard A. O'Connor Scott Bennett "The Power of Place in Learning" Planning for Higher Education 33 June-August 2005 28-30
5. The Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington, Seattle, is another magnificent library designed in the idiom of a church. The most common alternative design idiom in the United States is that of the secular palace of the mind, exemplified by such grand buildings as the New York Public Library and the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.
6. See Chapter 4, "Evaluation, Preference, and Human Needs," by Stephen Kaplan and Rachel Kaplan, Cognition and Environment: Functioning in an Uncertain World (New York: Praeger, 1982), pp. 73-98.
7. The four factors referenced here are developed at some length in the chapter section titled "Informational Factors in Environmental Preference," pp. 81 ff. Ken A. Graetz and Michael J. Goliber cite the Kaplans' book and briefly explain these four factors in "Designing Collaborative Learning Places: Psychological Foundations and New Frontiers," New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 92 (Winter 2002): 15.
8. In can be done, however. Yale's Irving S. Gilmore Library of Music was recently build in a light court of the Sterling Memorial Library and strongly echoes the gothic design of its host building.
9. Cathy De Rosa Lorcan Dempsey Alane Wilson The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition 2004 OCLC Dublin, OH 8-9
10. See "Civilization III" by FIRAXIS Games, at Computer Simulation Games, http://compsimgames.about.com/cs/civilization3/ (June 5, 2005).
11. See Keith Bradsher, "Sad, Lonely? For a Good Time, Call Vivienne (3G Required, Batteries Extra)," New York Times February 24, 2005: C1, C5.
12. Rolin Jones provides a moving depiction of such a hacker in his play The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (2004).
13. De Rosa, p. 100, citing "Bill Gates at COMDEX 2003: The Era of Seamless Computing," PressPass (November 16, 2003). Gates' speech is available at http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2003/11-16comdex2003.asp (June 5, 2005).
14. Private correspondence, March 2005, with Louise Berry, Director, Darien [Connecticut] Public Library.
15. Fred Kent et al. "How to Become a Great Public Space" American Libraries 34 April 2003 72
16. See Libraries Designed for Learning and the two Shill and Tonner articles, "Creating a Better Place: Physical Improvements in Academic Libraries, 1995-2002;" College & Research Libraries, 64 (November 2003): 431-466;
17. and "Does the Building Still Matter? Usage Patterns in New, Expanded, and Renovated Libraries, 1995-2002," College and Research Libraries, 65 (March 2004): 125-149.
18. For more information about information literacy, see the Web site of the Association of College and Research Libraries, http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/ informationliteracy.htm (June 5, 2005).
19. See, for instance, Lisa Janicke Hincliffe, Neal-Schuman Electronic Classroom Handbook (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001); http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/library/infocommons/ic_home.html
20. two articles by Donald Beagle: "Conceptualizing an Information Commons," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25 (March 1999): 82-89
21. and "Extending the Information Commons: From Instructional Testbed to Internet2," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 28 (September 2002): 287-296;
22. and Information Commons: A Directory of Innovative Services and Resources in Academic Libraries, http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/library/infocommons/ic_home.html (June 5, 2005).
23. See De Rosa, The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan;
24. Diana Oblinger, "Boomers, Gen-Exers, and Millennials: Understanding the New Students," EDUCAUSE (July/August 2003) 36-43;
25. and Robert B. Barr and John Tagg, "From Teaching to Learning-A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education," Change, 27 (November/ December 1995): 12-25.
26. See Michael Wooliscroft, "Challenge, Stimulation and Ultimate Fulfilment: The Development of the Information Services Building at the University of Otago, 1993-2002," Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 34 (June 2003): 127.
27. See also Mark Y. Herring, "Our times, they are a 'changin,' but are we? Library Journal, 126 (October 2001): 43.
28. Craig Hartman, an architect with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, observes that "while there is a long tradition to draw on, there is no agreed on paradigm for the library of the future. Getting to this paradigm is the task before us;"see quot;Memory Palace, Place of Refuge, Coney Island of the Mind: The Evolving Roles of the Library in the late 20th Century," Research Strategies 17, nos. 2-3 (2000): 112.
29. De Rosa p. 105. The expression "ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is" derives from the famous book by Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything (New York: Harmony, 1982).
30. The imbalance in library space design practices is argued at greater length in Scott Bennett, "Righting the Balance," in Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space, 10-24 (Washington, DC: CLIR, 2005), pp. 10-24.
31. Kenneth A. Bruffee Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge 2nd ed. 1999 Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore, MD 180
32. John Seely Brown "Learning in the Digital Age" Maureen Devlin Richard Larson Joel Meyerson The Internet and the University: 2001 Forum 2002 EDUCAUSE Boulder, CO 69 available at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffpiu015.pdf (June 5, 2005).
33. Alice Trussell "Breaking the Mold: Building a New Engineering Branch Library Focused on Electronic Delivery of Information" Science & Technology Libraries 24 nos. 3-4 2004 241 Trussell emphasizes how little like a traditional library a new library looks when it focuses primarily on the delivery of digital information
34. Jim Neal makes a powerful and provocative argument for this choice in his presentation, "Physical Places/Virtual Spaces," in The Library as Place/Symposium on Building and Revitalizing Health Sciences Libraries in the Digital Age, 2003 (Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine & Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, 2004); a CD-DVD.
35. See "Welsh Medical Library [at Johns Hopkins University] Architectural Study," available at: http://www.welch.jhu.edu/architecturalstudy/index.html (June 5, 2005).
36. Steven M. Foote "Changes in Library Design: An Architect's Perspectivequot; portal: Libraries and the Academy 4 January 2004 41-42
37. The list of trends cited by Foote comes from Michael J. Crosbie and Damon D. Hickey, When Change is Set in Stone: An Analysis of Seven Academic Libraries (Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2001) pp. 7-18.
38. Oblinger John D. Bransford Ann L. Brown Rodney R. Cocking How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School 1999 National Academy Press Washington, DC
39. Jeanne Narum stresses the importance of starting building projects with the right questions in "Building Communities: Asking the Right Questions," a Project Kaleidoscope document available at http://www.pkal.org/documents/Building%20Communities%20-%20Asking% 20the%20Right%20Questions.pdf?CFID=79813&CFTOKEN=75943407
40. For more information about planning for the library at Duke, see the Perkins Library Expansion and Renovation Project, available at http://staff.lib.duke.edu/renovation/ (June 5, 2005); for Johns Hopkins, see Kathleen Burr Oliver, "The Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library as Base: Information Professionals Working in Library User Environments" in Library as Place, 66-75;
41. for the Ohio State University Library, see the Learning Group of the OSU Libraries, "Report on the Renovation of the Thompson Library" (September 2004), http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/208 (June 5, 2005);
42. and for Sewanee, see "Righting the Balancequot; in Library as Place, pp. 12 ff.
43. Mary Augusta Thomas observes that "the reference desk may be the only feature of a college or university library that seems to remain the same," in "Redefining Library Space: Managing the Coexistence of Books, Computers, and Readers," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26 (November 2000): 413.
44. Private correspondence, March 2005, with Louise Berry, Director, Darien [Connecticut] Public Library. In making the point about two-way conversations, Ms. Berry cites Chapter 4, "Markets are Conversations," in Rick Levine, et al., The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2000), pp. 75-114.
45. Consider, for instance, that for years we have affirmed our ability to get the entire contents of the Library of Congress onto one small, portable storage device. But no one imagined actually doing it. Now something like this imagined technical feat promises to become an actuality, as Google undertakes the conversion to digital form of large portions of the collections at major research libraries. See John Markoff and Edward Wyatt, "Google is Adding Major Libraries to its Database," New York Times, 14 (December 2004): A1.