Designing the Research Commons: Classical Models for School Libraries.
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| Title: | Designing the Research Commons: Classical Models for School Libraries. |
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| Authors: | Buchanan, Sarah1 |
| Source: | School Libraries Worldwide. Jan2012, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p56-69. 14p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Instructional materials centers, *School library administration, *School library history, School library design & construction, Library architecture, Information commons |
| Abstract: | School libraries and media centers today are embracing the idea of the "learning commons," an approach to learning which makes use of the facility's physical openness and group meeting places to facilitate current shifts towards computer-based resource sharing and collaborative student projects. How can libraries yet to make this transition reverse a prior, mid-twentieth-century architectural bent toward segmentation of school library resources from the surrounding institution, and implement a more inclusive school library design? The open library paradigm is shown to represent a return to the principles of the earliest democratic libraries and repositories in the Western tradition. A qualitative metasynthesis of both the literature of library architecture and of the history of school libraries was undertaken in order to increase librarians' awareness of classical forms which influence design decisions into the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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