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2 Bad enough! Again the same old story! When you’ve finished building your house, you realize that in doing so you unexpectedly learned something that you absolutely had to know — before you began to build. The eternal pitiful ‘too late!’ The melancholy of everything done!… Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Facilities for Collaboration — NERCOMP 2002

3 Collaborative Facilities A CNI/Dartmouth Project

4 Project Goals Provide information for institutions planning facilities Bring together information on a wide range of facilities Document depository Promote collaboration related to networked information resources and services

5 What are collaborative facilities? Deliver content or services Involves networked technology Staffed by more than a single professional group

6 What’s collaboration? Shared goals Recognition of contributions of each group Joint administrative structure not required

7 Types of facilities Information commons Digital library centers Centers for instructional or faculty development Centers or classrooms for instructional delivery

8 Types of facilities (2) Facilities for multimedia production Facilities for multimedia delivery Centers for distance education Specialized or high end services –Caves –I2 Access Grid conferencing facilities

9 Professional Groups Librarians Information technologists Instructional technologists Faculty Dean’s office; Residential Life Media producers

10 Coalition for Networked Information Dartmouth College Sponsored by

11 Advisory Group Malcolm Brown, Dartmouth Barbara Dewey, U. Tennessee Charles Henry, Rice Joan Lippincott, CNI Catherine Murray-Rust, Oregon State Michael Neuman, Georgetown

12 Presentations at CNI meetings Dartmouth College Oregon State University Northwestern University University of Tennessee Vassar College

13 Project examples

14 Dartmouth library expansion

15 Oregon State U. Information Commons

16 Northwestern 2 East

17 U. Tennessee Digital Media Service

18 Vassar’s media cloisters

19 The web site

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21 Supporting Documents

22 (1) Planning documents key decisions decision-making process(es) construction phasing –collection management and access –network services continuity

23 Dartmouth examples Baker/Berry Phasing Plan Baker/Berry Move Plan Collection Management Report

24 (2) Designs of physical space floor plans architectural drawings illustrations photos

25 Dartmouth examples

26 (3) Technology design and costs equipment rosters maps of equipment to program goals and spaces equipment innovations emerging technology opportunities

27 (4) Description of services comparisons (e.g. old vs. new) constituencies assessments

28 Dartmouth examples

29 (5) Staffing documents staff reassignments new staff increments acquisition of new skill sets

30 (6) Financial documents overall project costs fiscal trade-offs maintenance costs other on-going (new) costs

31 (7) Marketing strategies marketing to staff marketing to constituencies mapping to institutional priorities –institutional strategic plans –development strategies –IT and library strategic directions

32 (8) Miscellaneous overviews lessons learned pitfalls to avoid kitchen sink

33 Dartmouth examples Architects’ backgrounds Project and design history Donors backgrounds

34 Submission process

35 Submission Process Fill out form on website FTP files Update annually

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38 Contact Information Joan Lippincott Malcolm Brown

39 Bad enough! Again the same old story! When you’ve finished building your house, you realize that in doing so you unexpectedly learned something that you absolutely had to know — before you began to build. The eternal pitiful ‘too late!’ The melancholy of everything done!… Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Facilities for Collaboration — NERCOMP 2002