Development of Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries: A Decision Makers Guide

As a third space on campus, the library is poised to be the location where researchers and students will come for help with creative endeavors, such as multimedia projects, data visualization, 3D printing and more. Libraries worldwide are coming up with innovative ways to engage students in this dialog, including by setting aside high-tech spaces for creativity. Five models of library creative spaces are explored in this book: digital media labs, Digital Humanities labs, makerspaces, data visualization labs, and knowledge markets. Digital media labs can assist students with audio and video projects for multimodal assignments and their own artistic work. Digital Humanities labs assist faculty and students to envision new scholarship on historical and artistic topics, with librarians and technical staff to instruct and guide them. Makerspaces are problem solving spaces that allow people to tinker, invent, or create 3D models. A visualization lab is a high-tech space used for simulations and data analysis, and may include a visualization wall or other interactive components. A knowledge market is a collaboration between the library (research help), the speech center (presentation skills), the writing center (writing and citation help), along with a data visualization and/or multimedia instruction component. This book explores creative spaces being offered currently in libraries, with a focus on academic libraries. It goes on to give real-world advice for the process of crafting a new space in the library, including finding campus partners, conducting a needs analysis, and answering important questions. Case studies of innovators of library creativity will further highlight the successes-and pitfalls-of embarking on the process of developing a new service or space in the library. The key feature is that this book shows administrators, at a glance, what other institutions are doing regarding services for media literacy at this timeThe book would help university library administrators determine what their best course of action would be for their institution and consider ways to pilot a serviceProvides detailed and unique case studies of up to 10 leading institutions and the service models they are providing INDICE: Section 1: Creative Space in the Academic Library: Space and Service Models 1. The Case for Creative Spaces in Academic Libraries 2. Defining Library Space and Service Models for Media Literacy 3. Digital Media Labs 4. Digital Humanities Labs 5. Data Visualization Labs 6. Knowledge Market 7. Makerspaces Section 2: Developing a Creative Space in a Library Introduction to Section 2 8. Conducting a Needs Assessment and Answering Important Questions 9. Gaining Feedback 10. Building Relationships with Campus and Outside Partners 11. Managing a Building Project 12. Gathering Statistics, Conducting Assessment, and Telling your Story Section 3: Case Studies 13. Case Studies in the Literature 14. Case Study: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Undergraduate Library 15. Case Study: North Carolina State University 16. Case Study: Eastern Kentucky University, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity 17. Case Study: Georgetown University, Gelardin New Media Center & Maker Hub 18. Case Study: Penn State University, Data Learning Center 19. Case Study: Georgia State, CURVE 20. Case Study: Duke University, The Ruppert Commons for Research, Technology and Collaboration (also known as The Edge) 21. Case Study: University of Colorado-Denver: Auraria Campus 22. Case Study: Yale University, Digital Humanities Lab 23. Case Study: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Digital Humanities Lab 24. Case Study: Rutgers University, Digital Humanities Lab 25. Case Study: Grand Valley State University, Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons 26. East Carolina University

• ISBN: 978-0-08-102266-5
• Editorial: Chandos Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 180
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés