http://acrlog.org/2008/03/04/and-the-back-of-the-envelope-please/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://acrlog.org/2008/03/04/and-the-back-of-the-envelope-please/comment-page-1/#comment-71019 Marilyn R. Pukkila Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:32:35 +0000 http://acrlog.org/2008/03/04/and-the-back-of-the-envelope-please/#comment-71019 Take a look at Foster and Gibbons' _Studying Students_ http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-4436 for examples of other ways that students envisioned library spaces, complete with fireplaces, bean bag chairs, and latte bars! I'm hoping to emulate some of the studies they did with our students here, though since we don't have any grand plans for redesign at the moment, we probably won't ask about library design. More likely is the camera project (students are given a disposable camera and take pictures of a list of things, places, etc. to do with their lives and their research practices) and/or the map project (students are given a campus map and asked to map out a typical day, showing each building they go to, the route they use, the time they arrived and left, and what they did there). Take a look at Foster and Gibbons’ _Studying Students_ http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-4436 for examples of other ways that students envisioned library spaces, complete with fireplaces, bean bag chairs, and latte bars! I’m hoping to emulate some of the studies they did with our students here, though since we don’t have any grand plans for redesign at the moment, we probably won’t ask about library design. More likely is the camera project (students are given a disposable camera and take pictures of a list of things, places, etc. to do with their lives and their research practices) and/or the map project (students are given a campus map and asked to map out a typical day, showing each building they go to, the route they use, the time they arrived and left, and what they did there).

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