1. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES The Library as place: what users want from libraries Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

2. 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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4. Master Planning exercise  Integral to Library Strategy  10 over-arching goals  Supporting the student experience  E-development See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtmlhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtml

5. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Estate issues  Master Plan Report  See http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5048/http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5048/  and http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5051/http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5051/  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 http://www.bdp.co.ukhttp://www.bdp.co.uk  User survey elicited 2,940 responses  See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/buildsurvey2007.shtmlhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/buildsurvey2007.shtml

6. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Option 1: UCL Main Library

7. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Option 1: UCL Main Library

8. 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.

9. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES E-Learning spaces Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University

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11. UCL Science Library – Learning Laboratory Flexible seating Enlarged entrance 30 new PCs RFID Self Issue/Return Collocated computer support

12. 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

13. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES And finally…  And now…  Over to Kaisa Sinikara  For Case study from  Helsinki University Donaldson Reading Room, UCL Main Library