Northwestern University’s Partnerships for Success EDUCAUSE MidWest Regional Conference March 17, 2008

 Working jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor  The process by which people/organizations work together to accomplish a common mission  Shared control over decisionmaking  Work that is done jointly to improve the efforts of all  The process people with different ways of seeing the world interact to learn from each other in order to get better at what ever they are trying to do

 Growing imperative in higher ed  More productive use of space and resources  Enhanced student learning  New perspectives on service

 Faculty in the classroom  Academic departments  Administrative departments  Information Technology department

 In the library  On campus  In the classroom  When renovation is taking place

 Location: Evanston, north suburb of Chicago  15,700 FTE students  Doctoral/Research Universities–Extensive  Library  One main building; two branch libraries (one in Chicago)  278 staff  4.6 million volumes  Open 122 hours/week

 Writing Center  Writing Place  Career Services  Career Lab  School of Continuing Studies (Chicago)   Writing Place  Math Place  Project Café  Project Café Training Rooms  WCAS faculty  Pilot project for info lit

 2East is a Northwestern University faculty resource center located on the 2 nd floor, East tower of the University Library  Established to promote scholary technologies and bibliographic resourse activities  NUL’s Digital Media services, Collection management, and NUIT’s Academic Technologies

 Digital projects  Course-management software  Faculty workshops on technology  Presentation on technology applications

 Melville J. Herskovits, Maps of Africa digitization project  Partnership of Digital Media Services, Collections Management, Academic Technologies

 Program offered jointly by the the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Academic Technologies, and the University Library  Workshop format and is held over five consecutive days  Faculty must be nominated by their chairs or deans in order to participate in the program

 Specifically intended for NU faculty who want to take advantage of the teaching and research capabilities of digital media, course management systems, online archives, advanced visualization technologies, electronic journals, and other emerging technologies

 Partnership between NUL Digital Media Services and Academic Technologies  Initial project funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)  Winterton Collection of East African photographs: 7,610 photographs depicting life in East Africa between the 1860s and 1960s

 Partnership between Library and NUIT  Collaborative space  Highly desirable space at library entrance  Test bed for new technologies  First stop for all patrons  Shared staffing

 5100 sq. ft  Phase One: Summer and Fall 2004  complete renovation  infrastructure and carpeting installed  Phase Two: Winter 2005  furniture installed  official opening  Phase Three: Summer 2005  completion of Group Project Room

 Cultural differences  Changed expectations  Expect the unexpected  Good model for new space  “We love it when a plan comes together”

 TE + IE = S  Growth on both sides  Model for future learning and collaboration spaces

 Renovation of Science and Engineering Library (North Campus)  Renovation and repurposing of Schaffner Library (Chicago Campus)  ???

 Bob Davis, Associate Director Academic Technologies  Denise Shorey, Head of Reference University Library  Slide presentation at depot.northwestern.edu/~rda164/ Partnersdepot.northwestern.edu/~rda164/ Partners  Case study in Learning Spaces  InfoCommons website infocommons.northwestern.edu infocommons.northwestern.edu

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