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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
The Library as place: what users want from libraries
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
e-mail: [email protected]
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Contents
1. UCL and UCL Library Services
2. Master Planning exercise
3. Selected Issue Collections spaces and learning spaces
4. Conclusions?
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Master Planning exercise
Integral to Library Strategy
10 over-arching goals
Supporting the student experience
E-development
See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtml
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Estate issues
Master Plan Report See http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5048/ and http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5051/
Do Nothing is not an option Refurbish/enlarge existing estate Newbuild, bringing together a number of scattered libraries Work undertaken by BDP (Building Design Partnership)
See http://www.bdp.co.uk User survey elicited 2,940 responses
See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/buildsurvey2007.shtml
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Option 1: UCL Main Library
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Option 1: UCL Main Library
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Twenty-first century learning spaces?
Curriculum in Science, Technology and Medicine Expects students to work in groups and to undertake projects Students are expected to use more than books and journals
Digital tools Photography Video Sound recordings FilmImagesWebsites, blogs, wikis etc.
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E-Learning spaces
Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University
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UCL Science Library –Learning Laboratory
Flexible seating
Flexible seating
Enlarged entrance
30 new PCs
RFID Self Issue/Return
Collocated computer support
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UCL Library Services Learning Laboratory
24-hr opening of library and collections in exam term 30 extra networked PCs to add to 150+ already available Radio networking throughout the space Flexible seating, which students can re-arrange, for group work RFID technology for whole bookstock for self-issue/self-return Enlarged entrance to cope with 4,000 users a day in term Co-location of Help Desk from Information Systems (Computing
Services) to provide 1-stop shop for users
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And finally…
And now… Over to Kaisa
Sinikara For Case study from Helsinki University
Donaldson Reading Room, UCL Main Library