Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Case studies
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction – about this book
- PART 1 PROJECTS AND TRENDS
- PART 2 TRENDS AND IDEAS
- PART 3 IDEAS AND FUTURES
- Introduction
- 11 Beyond space: access is all – or is it?
- 12 Thinking inside the box
- 13 Nothing has changed/everything has changed – the enduring aspects of learning
- 14 Books, nooks and MOOCs
- 15 The researcher's view: context is critical
- 16 Libraries in the network society: evolution, revolution, extinction?
- 17 Powered by learning: developing models of provision to meet the expectations of new generations of students
- 18 The library has left the building
- 19 Beyond analogue: the learning studio as media-age library
- 20 3D libraries for 3D smarting
- 21 Learning landscapes, the library and the University of Lincoln: efficiency, effectiveness, expression and experimentation
- 22 Viral design: learners building better environments together
- 23 The interior designer's view
- 24 Furniture fit for the future – a brief exploration of library and learning furniture today and for the coming generation
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
Introduction
from PART 3 - IDEAS AND FUTURES
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Case studies
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction – about this book
- PART 1 PROJECTS AND TRENDS
- PART 2 TRENDS AND IDEAS
- PART 3 IDEAS AND FUTURES
- Introduction
- 11 Beyond space: access is all – or is it?
- 12 Thinking inside the box
- 13 Nothing has changed/everything has changed – the enduring aspects of learning
- 14 Books, nooks and MOOCs
- 15 The researcher's view: context is critical
- 16 Libraries in the network society: evolution, revolution, extinction?
- 17 Powered by learning: developing models of provision to meet the expectations of new generations of students
- 18 The library has left the building
- 19 Beyond analogue: the learning studio as media-age library
- 20 3D libraries for 3D smarting
- 21 Learning landscapes, the library and the University of Lincoln: efficiency, effectiveness, expression and experimentation
- 22 Viral design: learners building better environments together
- 23 The interior designer's view
- 24 Furniture fit for the future – a brief exploration of library and learning furniture today and for the coming generation
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
Summary
Part 3 of this book has 14 chapters, written by authors from a wide range of backgrounds, that look at the potential for future library space. These chapters stand alone as individual essays on how the authors see the library from their professional perspective, giving glimpses of their version of the future. There is remarkable consensus in their view that we will continue to have places that do what libraries currently do and more – though they may not be called libraries and they may be physical or virtual, or both. My reasons for inviting such a variety of authors to contribute their ideas, as mentioned in the introduction to the book, were:
Those close to and deeply involved in the work of the library often have answers to questions about the future of libraries that are bounded by the realities of day-to-day library operations – it is, in my view, more likely that the fresh ideas for future library and learning space will come from unexpected places. Understanding the broadest range of perspectives is at least helpful and possibly invaluable when faced with unknown possibilities.
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- Better Library and Learning SpaceProjects, trends and ideas, pp. 149 - 150Publisher: FacetPrint publication year: 2013
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