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Rollings, Kimberly A.; Kayongo, Jessica – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
This study examined whether three renovated academic library spaces encouraged group work as intended. Hourly observations and a questionnaire documented group work use, space preferences, and suggested improvements. Compared to the three renovated spaces, significantly more group work occurred in an unrenovated space that was more open, spacious,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Group Activities, Physical Environment, Facility Improvement
Bunnett, Brian; Boehme, Andrea; Hardin, Steve; Arvin, Shelley; Evans, Karen; Huey, Paula; LaBella, Carey – Journal of Access Services, 2016
A sharp decline in the number of reference queries prompted the library administration at Indiana State University to begin a project to combine the circulation, reference, and IT desks to reduce staffing at a new consolidated service point. All faculty and staff in the reference/instruction and circulation units participated in the project. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, State Universities, Library Facilities
Flierl, Michael; Howard, Heather; Zakharov, Wei; Zwicky, Dave; Weiner, Sharon – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
This paper investigated how libraries can support the transition of first-year international undergraduate students to a large research university. The research explored the students' use of libraries, their use of information to learn, and their academic and information literacy learning needs. The methods were a survey (with 135 responses) and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Students, College Libraries, Research Universities
Head, Alison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2016
This paper identifies approaches, challenges, and best practices related to planning and designing today's academic library learning spaces. As part of the Project Information Literacy (PIL) Practitioner Series, qualitative data is presented from 49 interviews conducted with a sample of academic librarians, architects, and library consultants.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design
Foster, Nancy Fried, Ed. – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2014
This report is based on a series of presentations at the second CLIR Seminar on "Participatory Design of Academic Libraries," held at the University of Rochester's River Campus June 5-7, 2013. Participatory design is a relatively recent approach to understanding library user behavior. It is based on techniques used in anthropological and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Users (Information), Design, Participation
Saunders, E. Stewart – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2008
Should academic libraries seek to improve general satisfaction with their services, or are some services more important than others? This article asserts that faculty and students mainly want information resources. The research analyzes LibQUAL+[TM] data to determine which other library resources contribute to information satisfaction among users.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information)
Howard, Edward N. – Wilson Libr Bull, 1969
Descriptors: Ghettos, Libraries, Library Facilities, Library Services
Hiatt, Peter; Thompson, Donald – 1966
Conditions which affect present and future library service for Monroe County are traced in detail. A range of feasible services is suggested for implementing the objectives of the library. The report is intended to offer background information, analyzed and interpreted in relation to library philosophy. Possible services which can help the…
Descriptors: County Libraries, Library Facilities, Library Planning, Library Services
Gabbard, Ralph B.; Kaiser, Anthony; Kaunelis, David – Computers in Libraries, 2007
The reference desk at Indiana State University's (ISU) library offers an excellent view of student work areas on the first floor. From this vantage point, the reference librarians noticed students, especially in the evening and on weekends, huddled together in small groups, with one student at the keyboard of a laptop or desktop computer. The…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Information Technology, Reference Services, Space Utilization
Foust, James D.; Tower, Carl B. – 1970
Before future library needs can be estimated, economic and demographic variables that influence the demand for library services must be projected and estimating equations relating library needs to economic and demographic parameters developed. This study considers the size, location and age-sex characteristics of Indiana's current population and…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Library Facilities, Library Planning
Foust, James D.; Hughes, Warren R. – 1970
This study contains an inventory of Indiana's present library facilities together with projections of the need for future library resources based on the population projections. To facilitate presentation and analysis of the data in this report, 14 state planning regions were used. The relevant geographic regions section defines Indiana's economic…
Descriptors: Information Services, Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Facilities
Amrhein, Rick; Resetar, Donna – Computers in Libraries, 2004
This article presents a plan of having a new facility for the library of Valparaiso University. The authors, as dean of library services and assistant university librarian for access services at Valpo, discuss their plan of building a Center for Library and Information Resources that would house more books while also providing computing centers,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Library Services, Educational Facilities Design, College Libraries
Ury, Connie Jo, Ed.; Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Park, Sarah G., Ed. – Online Submission, 2009
Twenty-one scholarly papers and fourteen abstracts comprise the content of the ninth annual "Brick and Click Libraries Symposium," held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Computer Software Evaluation, Student Employment
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis. – 1966
This study of the adequacy of library facilities in Indiana's penal institutions was undertaken at the request of a state senate committee studying the Indiana Department of Correction. The penal libraries are judged to be inadequate and their major problems with personnel, materials, services, and physical facilities are listed. Also given are…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutional Libraries, Library Collections, Library Facilities
Casey, Genevieve M. – 1970
This study measures the performance of Indiana state institutions against current hospital library standards, estimates the cost of bringing library service up to minimum standards, proposes alternate administrative patterns for institutional library services in Indiana, recommends priorities, and proposes a plan for phasing-in the improvement of…
Descriptors: Institutional Libraries, Institutionalized Persons, Institutions, Library Facilities
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