The new library commons at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment is a comprehensive renovation with new areas for student and faculty engagement, presentations, group meetings, and accommodations for visiting scholars. http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/index.php?page=7 Branch and Subject Libraries These satellite, specialized entities are undergoing change in one of two ways—either to be absorbed by a larger campus library or to be invigorated in new ways. Libraries choosing to invigorate branch or subject libraries usually do so with partners who share a vision of enhanced services and support for study and research. The Research Computing Lab at University of Virginia’s Brown Science and Engineering Library “provides a convenient space for faculty and students to work on innovative projects with specialists from the library and the campus IT group. Here they get support for instruction and research in the science and engineering disciplines.” Consultation services are offered for high-performance and research computing, complemented by training sessions and “boot camps.” http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/science/rescomp/index.html The new and privately funded C. V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley features a rare-book facility consolidated print collections of 400,000 volumes various flavors of group and individual spaces faculty support for digitization and course development and a multi- purpose media center with advanced imaging, satellite, and media equipment. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EAL/ The newly renovated Fine Arts Library Reading Room at the University of Texas, a funding and staffing collaboration with the College of Fine Arts, features multimedia workstations, an array of specialty production equipment, and with capacity to host donor receptions and other functions. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/fal/index.html Flexible, User-influenced Spaces A handful of libraries have turned to their constituents to influence space and programming outcomes. As a result of these informative engagements, libraries report the outcomes exceed what they might have created working in isolation. Cornell University librarians worked with students and faculty from the departments of communication and design & experimental analysis to develop RLI 264 12 Learning and Research Spaces in ARL Libraries: Snapshots of Installations and Experiments ( C O N T I N U E D ) JUNE 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC
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