Evidence-Driven Decisions on Library Space in the Digital Age

Join Ithaka S+R for a pre-CNI workshop with Nancy Fried Foster and Roger Schonfeld

Physical space, often at the heart of a campus, is one of the greatest assets of many academic and research libraries. In this age of expanding online and on-screen information use, libraries continue to provide places for storing and using legacy materials while offering new kinds of spaces for serving and consulting electronic resources and for conducting technology-enhanced learning and scholarly collaborations. The regular reexamination of how spaces are utilized provides an important opportunity for library leaders to improve support for research, teaching, and learning, while extending and enhancing community relationships.

This workshop is designed to help library leaders drive evidence-based decisions about redesigning and renovating their physical spaces. Participants are encouraged to bring data pertaining to their college or university library for group discussion, such as space usage, survey findings, and user study results. The workshop format will include the following components:

• An overview of research findings to contextualize this issue and frame some of the key questions that individual institutions may wish to address;

• Group discussion of strategies for incorporating evidence most effectively into institutional decision-making on this topic;

• Facilitated planning for evidence-based decision-making on space and facilities issues.

As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to enhance the evidence available to them in support of space planning and will improve their decision-making about space design and renovation.

A light breakfast will be served at 8:30 am and the workshop will begin at 9:00 am.

Registration is capped at 30.

Please note, the Local Survey participant rate is reserved for people from institutions who have implemented, or who are implementing, the Ithaka S+R local faculty and/or local student survey on their campus. For more information about our local survey program, please see http://www.sr.ithaka.org/content/ithaka-sr-local-surveys.

Please contact Kimberly Lutz at kimberly.lutz@ithaka.org if you have questions about registering.