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Meng Qu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This paper introduces a Patron Counting and Analysis (PCA) system that leverages Wi-Fi-connection data to monitor space utilization and analyze visitor patterns in academic libraries. The PCA system offers real-time crowding information to the public and a comprehensive visitor analysis dashboard for library administrators. The system's…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Users (Information), Use Studies, Space Utilization
Lewis, Zachary; Mathuews, Katy B. – Public Services Quarterly, 2020
In this study, researchers used basic qualitative research to understand the spaces, resources, and services available to K12 students in their school libraries. Using observation and semi-structured interviews with K12 teacher librarians, this research allowed for a comparison of the K12 and post-secondary environments through which the authors…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Academic Libraries, College Readiness
Baril, Kathleen; Kobiela, Kelly – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2017
Libraries, long the heart of academic life, nonetheless have been perceived as a passive space for physical resources and quiet study. Changes in the dissemination of information, as well as teaching and learning methods that focus on high-impact practices, have driven library staff to reimagine the physical buildings of libraries. To meet the new…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Educational Facilities Improvement, Undergraduate Students
Staley, David J.; Seaman, Scott; Theodore-Shusta, Eileen – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
A critical component of strategic planning is creating a shared-awareness among library staff of the potential societal, political, economic and technological changes that will influence how future users will create and consume scholarly materials, what will be expected of library services, and how facilities will be used. The ACRL Futuring…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Strategic Planning, Library Administration, Futures (of Society)
Dempsey, Beth – Library Journal, 2009
Despite the recent turmoil in the U.S. economy, most libraries that were tracked by "Library Journal" won their referenda at a rate just slightly lower than 2007. Nearly three-quarters of operating referenda passed. Building referenda under $10 million passed at a whopping 85%, with those over $10 million batting slightly better than…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Library Facilities, Financial Support, Voting
Webb, Kathleen M.; Schaller, Molly A.; Hunley, Sawyer A. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2008
The University of Dayton (UD) used a multi-method research approach to evaluate current space use in the library. A general campus survey on study spaces, online library surveys, a week-long video study, and data from the "National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)" were examined to understand student choices in library usage. Results…
Descriptors: Library Facilities, Academic Libraries, Space Utilization, Interior Space
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2009
"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") is a bimonthly report from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). This issue includes the following articles: (1) ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Associations, Confidentiality
Waters, John K. – Campus Technology, 2008
As campus renovation projects go, the Ohio State University's plan to turn its main library into "a library for the 21st century" is ambitious. The author describes the decade-long, $109 million transformation of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library. The overhaul calls for a complete replacement of all mechanical and electrical…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Library Services, Library Facilities, Academic Libraries
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2008
"ARL" is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). "ARL" reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Handheld Devices, Reference Services
Subel, Sue – Knowledge Quest, 2007
This article discusses the importance of designing a library media center that engages students in constructing new knowledge. The author describes the planning stages of a new library facility. In the early planning stages, the author focused on the expectations of the administration. She soon realized that they had included all the…
Descriptors: Facility Guidelines, Library Services, School Libraries, Learning Resources Centers
Brown, Judy – Knowledge Quest, 2007
At one time, the Caldwell High School Library at Caldwell Exempted Village Schools in Caldwell, Ohio, had two sections--the main room with the shelves, circulation desk, and tables and chairs, and an adjoining room with student desks. There was a wide opening to the back room, and glass partitions in the upper half of the wall separating the two…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, School Libraries, Study Centers, Enrollment Trends
Simonyi, Stacy – Knowledge Quest, 2007
This article describes how the author changed a gloomy and outdated library into a cheery and welcoming place for teaching and learning. When the author was hired as the new library media specialist at Tri-County Career Center Library in Nelsonville, Ohio, the library was antiquated, uncomfortable, and not geared for the present-day hills of…
Descriptors: Library Schools, Teacher Collaboration, Computers, School Libraries
MCCROSSAN, JOHN; AND OTHERS – 1968
THIS STUDY, UNDERTAKEN FOR THE OHIO STATE LIBRARY, PROVIDES IN PART I A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBER AND LOCATION OF BLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED, AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE IN OHIO AND A SURVEY OF THE LIBRARY SERVICES PRESENTLY AVAILABLE TO THEM. PART II, WRITTEN BY RAYNARD SWANK, GIVES LONG RANGE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROVIDING THE…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Cooperation, Library Facilities, Library Services
Yocum, James C.; Stocker, Frederick D. – 1970
This analysis of the demand for public library services in Franklin County, present and future, as the basis for the study's recommendations for future development of the public library system of the County, takes out in some directions new to library planning practice. The study makes a marketing and systems approach to the problem of measuring…
Descriptors: Costs, Library Facilities, Library Planning, Library Services
Rees, Alan M.; And Others – 1968
A research project which has as its objective the design, implementing and evaluation of educational programs for the purpose of upgrading hospital library practice is described. As a necessary preliminary to the formulation of educational objectives and the design of appropriate courses, a survey was made of hospital library facilities,…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Hospitals, Libraries, Library Collections