SPEC Kit 342: Next-Gen Learning Spaces · 171
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Space Requirements for Mann Library (excerpts)
3. Inspire students with great
learning spaces &services
● Integrate technology into study spaces
and classrooms that make
collaboration easier and more effective
● Work to create complementary
physical and online learning
environments/experiences
● Re-‐imagine collections and information
services to support our users’ evolving
information needs
● Build and mold a nimble, creative,
sustainable, &efficient staff that
supports continuing transformative
change
● Create spaces that allow for
thought provoking discussions
between faculty and students
and peers
● Configure spaces within the
building for specific needs of
students such as individual and
group study areas, open informal
work areas, online learning, quiet
study, etc.
● Maximize the flexibility of these
spaces to accommodate various
functions, needs, and group sizes
● Spaces need to be comfortable,
make it easy to collaborate,
flexible for a variety of learning
environments, and inspiring
● Establish facilities that enable
users to incorporate media
segments into assignments, e-‐
portfolios, and research projects
● Labrary space idea from Harvard
and others where spaces in the
library can be devoted to testing
out new furniture, layouts, and
software
● Provide spaces that
accommodate new patterns of
learning i.e., scale-‐up classrooms
4. Visibility of student and
faculty research
● Develop partnerships with faculty to
allow the library to be a showcase for
faculty and student work
● Library as a neutral zone for feedback
and expression on research
● Develop avenues for research explored
and expounded on by students in a
virtual environment
● Provide new spaces for informal
instruction and interaction
● Interaction zones where users
have access to both low and high
technology
computing/visualization tools
● Encourage student and faculty
“ownership” of the library by
establishing spaces within the
library for creation and display of
their work
● Establish areas for display of
research and figure out a way for
this to be self-‐service mode
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Space Requirements for Mann Library (excerpts)
3. Inspire students with great
learning spaces &services
● Integrate technology into study spaces
and classrooms that make
collaboration easier and more effective
● Work to create complementary
physical and online learning
environments/experiences
● Re-‐imagine collections and information
services to support our users’ evolving
information needs
● Build and mold a nimble, creative,
sustainable, &efficient staff that
supports continuing transformative
change
● Create spaces that allow for
thought provoking discussions
between faculty and students
and peers
● Configure spaces within the
building for specific needs of
students such as individual and
group study areas, open informal
work areas, online learning, quiet
study, etc.
● Maximize the flexibility of these
spaces to accommodate various
functions, needs, and group sizes
● Spaces need to be comfortable,
make it easy to collaborate,
flexible for a variety of learning
environments, and inspiring
● Establish facilities that enable
users to incorporate media
segments into assignments, e-‐
portfolios, and research projects
● Labrary space idea from Harvard
and others where spaces in the
library can be devoted to testing
out new furniture, layouts, and
software
● Provide spaces that
accommodate new patterns of
learning i.e., scale-‐up classrooms
4. Visibility of student and
faculty research
● Develop partnerships with faculty to
allow the library to be a showcase for
faculty and student work
● Library as a neutral zone for feedback
and expression on research
● Develop avenues for research explored
and expounded on by students in a
virtual environment
● Provide new spaces for informal
instruction and interaction
● Interaction zones where users
have access to both low and high
technology
computing/visualization tools
● Encourage student and faculty
“ownership” of the library by
establishing spaces within the
library for creation and display of
their work
● Establish areas for display of
research and figure out a way for
this to be self-‐service mode