UCL LIBRARY SERVICES The Library as place: what users want from libraries Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 1.UCL and UCL Library Services 2.Master Planning exercise 3.Selected Issue Collections spaces and learning spaces 4.Conclusions?
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Master Planning exercise Integral to Library Strategy 10 over-arching goals Supporting the student experience E-development See
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Estate issues Master Plan Report See and Do Nothing is not an option Refurbish/enlarge existing estate Newbuild, bringing together a number of scattered libraries Work undertaken by BDP (Building Design Partnership) See User survey elicited 2,940 responses See
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Option 1: UCL Main Library
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Option 1: UCL Main Library
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Twenty-first century learning spaces? Curriculum in Science, Technology and Medicine Expects students to work in groups and to undertake projects Students are expected to use more than books and journals Digital tools Photography Video Sound recordings Film Images Websites, blogs, wikis etc.
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES E-Learning spaces Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University
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UCL Science Library – Learning Laboratory Flexible seating Enlarged entrance 30 new PCs RFID Self Issue/Return Collocated computer support
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES UCL Library Services Learning Laboratory 24-hr opening of library and collections in exam term 30 extra networked PCs to add to 150+ already available Radio networking throughout the space Flexible seating, which students can re-arrange, for group work RFID technology for whole bookstock for self-issue/self-return Enlarged entrance to cope with 4,000 users a day in term Co-location of Help Desk from Information Systems (Computing Services) to provide 1-stop shop for users
UCL LIBRARY SERVICES And finally… And now… Over to Kaisa Sinikara For Case study from Helsinki University Donaldson Reading Room, UCL Main Library