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Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries

A Decision Maker's Guide

  • 1st Edition - February 16, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Katy Kavanagh Webb
  • Language: English

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Description

Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries: A Decision Maker's Guide includes innovative ways libraries are engaging students, including the practice of setting aside high-tech spaces for creativity. Five models of library creative spaces are explored in this book, including digital media labs, digital humanities labs, makerspaces, data visualization labs and knowledge markets. The book explores creative spaces currently offered in libraries, with a focus on academic libraries. It gives real-world advice for the process of crafting a new space in the library, including tactics on how to find campus partners, conduct a needs analysis, and answer important questions.

Case studies of innovators of library creativity further highlight the successes—and pitfalls—of embarking on the process of developing a new service or space in the library.

Key features

  • Shows administrators what other institutions are doing to enable media literacy
  • Helps university library administrators determine their best course of action
  • Provides detailed, unique case studies on up to 10 leading institutions, along with the service models they are providing

Readership

Academic library administrators; senior library managers; literacy librarians in research libraries

Table of contents

Section 1: Creative Space in the Academic Library: Space and Service Models

1. The Case for Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries

2. Defining Library Space and Service Models for Media Literacy

3. Digital Media Labs

4. Digital Humanities Labs

5. Data Visualization Labs

6. Knowledge Market

7. Makerspaces

Section 2: Developing a Creative Space in a Library
Introduction to Section 2

8. Conducting a Needs Assessment and Answering Important Questions

9. Gaining Feedback

10. Building Relationships with Campus and Outside Partners

11. Managing a Building Project

12. Gathering Statistics, Conducting Assessment, and Telling your Story

Section 3: Case Studies

13. Case Studies in the Literature

14. Case Study: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Undergraduate Library

15. Case Study: North Carolina State University

16. Case Study: Eastern Kentucky University, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity

17. Case Study: Georgetown University, Gelardin New Media Center & Maker Hub

18. Case Study: Penn State University, Data Learning Center

19. Case Study: Georgia State, CURVE

20. Case Study: Duke University, The Ruppert Commons for Research, Technology and Collaboration (also known as "The Edge")

21. Case Study: University of Colorado-Denver: Auraria Campus

22. Case Study: Yale University, Digital Humanities Lab

23. Case Study: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Digital Humanities Lab

24. Case Study: Rutgers University, Digital Humanities Lab

25. Case Study: Grand Valley State University, Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons

26. East Carolina University

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 2, 2018
  • Language: English

About the author

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Katy Kavanagh Webb

Katy Webb has served as the Betty Drees Johnson Dean of the Library and Learning Technologies at Stetson University’s duPont-Ball Library since July of 2024. She received her MLIS degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. After serving as the Head of Research and Instructional Services at East Carolina University, she was the Director of Yale Access Services and Bass Library at Yale University. Katy was the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist grant that took her to Leiden, the Netherlands to assist them in envisioning a digital scholars lab. Her writing focuses on library space usage, library labs, student employee engagement, how libraries can contribute to the High Impact Practices for Student Success (HIPs), and mindfulness, yoga, and burnout in libraries
Affiliations and expertise
Stetson University

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