Assessing Library Space for Learning

Herausgeber: Montgomery, Susan E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Assessing Library Space for Learning, chapters discuss library usage at academic institutions and how that usage is an integral part of the student learning experience. Readers will gain an understanding of the library space as a valuable learning space and the steps librarians need to take to assess learning in the academic library.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781442279261
• ISBN-10: 1442279265
• Artikelnr.: 47708039

Autorenporträt

Susan E. Montgomery is an Associate Professor/Public Services Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. She received her MS in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and holds a BA from Knox College and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Library Space assessment Background
Chapter 1 Space Assessment: An Interdisciplinary Look at Past and Present
Studies, Karen R. Diller
Chapter 2 Library Space and Learning Theory, Susan E. Montgomery
Chapter 3 A Place to Think, Feel, and Act: Psychological Approaches to
Understanding Library Spaces, Paul B. Harris and Stephanie N. Schweighardt
Chapter 4 The Evolving Role of the Architect in Library Design, Tom Sens
and Sarah Parisi Dowlin
Part 2 Applying Library Space Assessment
Chapter 5 Academic Libraries and Accreditation: A Theory-Based Framework
for Assessing Modern Library Spaces, James Zimmerman
Chapter 6 Designed to Meet Our Institutional Mission: A case study from
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Kristin Meyer and Erin Silva
Fisher
Chapter 7 Satisfying the Electric Youth: Maximizing Student Success Through
Space, Resources, Services AND Outlets, Mary Beth Lock, Meghan Webb and
John Champlin
Chapter 8 Creating a Learning Culture for Student-Athletes, Jason Dodd and
Dale Lackeyram
Chapter 9 Research-Creation: Library Space and Resources for Fine Arts
Students,
Shailoo Bedi, Christine Walde, Tad Suzuki, and Bill Blair
Chapter 10 Are They Different? An Investigation of Space and Learning in a
STEM Branch Library, Ian McCullough and Jo Ann Calzonetti
Chapter 11 First-Generation Undergraduate Students and Library Spaces: A
Case Study,
Karen A. Neurohr and Lucy E. Bailey
Chapter 12 Library Space Redesign: Stimulus and Response -
University of California, Santa Cruz, Gregory Careaga
Part 3 Library Space and Routine Assessment
Chapter 13 Watch this Space! Viewing Assessment as a Continuous Process,
Camille Andrews, Tobi Hines, and Sara E. Wright
Chapter 14 Future of Academic Library Space Assessment, Danuta A. Nitecki