Edward Gomes of A&SIST, Kevin Davis of OIT, and Yvonne Belanger of CIT
I attended this session since we have had so much discussion of library space in my own institution. This session discussed the Teaching and Learning Center in Perkins Library. Will be opening in the fall in the library. Success of recent renovation changed the campus’s perception of the library. Became a destination for faculty and students. Various high level administrators discussed bringing in classroom space to a place that had become an intellectual gathering space.
- Wanted it to be flexible, interdisciplinary, collaborative, interactive, and extending learning beyond class time.
- All classroom space highly teched-out with flexible furniture.
- Service model includes having a team that is centralized with the technology, ready to be dispatched immediately if any tech problem comes up in the classroom space.
- 50 ft desk service at the point of help, staffing shared among departments. You can get tech problems solved, reserve rooms, get training, check out equipment. It looks a lot like an information commons for instruction needs to me. Serves a lot of different problems in one location.
- The Center for Instructional Technology is in and is part of Perkins Library. They work with faculty on pedagogical questions related to technology and help faculty understand how technology can be useful in the classroom.
- All furniture is on wheels and intended to be moved around.
- There are adjacent group study rooms to the classroom. Professor can reserve classrooms and adjacent rooms in case they want to do break out work in groups as part of their class.
- Multi projectors in one room! Can run different images for comparison, I imagine chat going on in parallel, etc!
- Will have scheduled and drop-in help consultations for integrating technology into course activities.
- Roving reference librarians through the area.
- Collaborative group with stakeholders from many parts of campus working on creating policies for room reservations, etc.
- Consultants gave a presentation to administrators about branding and the name of the space. Then they gave a similar presentation to a group of students to make sure the name didn’t have an alternative meaning to the current generation. What a great idea!!
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