Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Why?
• Existing buildings approach end of natural life span
• Buildings not fit for purpose, libraries have ‘made do’
• Wider college newbuild programme
• Larger student numbers
• Need for more cost-effective use of space
• IT to enable rather than control learning
• Accommodate varied ways of learning
– Collaborative
– personalisation
In context
• major academic newbuild programme
• Building schools for the future
• LSC funding for Further Education
• HE investment in newbuild & expansion
• Designing for 21st century learning
Which means spaces that are
• Flexible
• Future-proofed
• Creative
• Supportive
Repositioning the library?
The current scenario –
the library as a neutral,
multi-use space?
Description
JISC materials
• Designing spaces for effective learning
• JISC Video case studies
• JISC Infonet toolkit
• JISC Infonet Flickr photo collection
– Search by aspect of design
– institution
– type of space
JISC Infonet photos
Other materials
• What if… re-imagining learning spaces
– Futurelab
• Designing Libraries public library database
– Designing Libraries
• Design excellence in FE awards
– RIBA / LSC
• Learning spaces
– Educause
• Good School libraries
– Ofsted
• CoFHE Mid West Spaced out presentations
– CoFHE
RSC South East support
• Sharing regional case studies
• Strategic advice
• Technical infrastructure advice
• Training in digital tools & technologies
rsc-support@kent.ac.uk