{"id":78,"date":"2013-12-04T20:13:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/llc\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-12-04T20:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T20:13:37","slug":"library-learning-commons-open-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2013\/12\/04\/library-learning-commons-open-meeting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Learning Commons Open Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>Library Learning Commons Project<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Friday 12\/6,1:00-2:00 p.m.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333\"> FPH East Lecture Hall<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Note from first Campus Open Forum:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Hampshire plans to renovate parts of the library and significantly modify the library first floor to create a Hampshire College Library Learning Commons. Some of you were able to join us to learn more about the project and find out how to be involved. The Learning Commons Steering Committee prepared a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1wGlMwwZDTzhLz3K0JERf1rkhTb0NkTx66pn1sp1jAt0\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">presentation.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Here is what we heard:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><b>Questions:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Are the gallery, post office, Airport Lounge, and Bridge being considered for the renovation?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Did discussions regarding library renovations come about after it was decided that the portal building would be built? (Cherie Butler)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">What is meant by front of house\/back of house operations (Anne Downes, asking for clarification after Bob\u2019s commentary about the process)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">During this renovation will walls be built or taken down, or will existing spaces just be renovated? (Carin Rank)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">There are lots of nice spaces on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> floors with nice window views, will the stacks be removed or moved? (Sharon Friedner)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><b>Comments:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u201cSuper-excited\u201d \u00a0\u00a0(Cherie Butler)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Excited, although apprehensive that the inspiration for our renovation seems to be schools that have access to state funding.\u00a0 Maybe we are small enough that our project will be feasible.\u00a0\u00a0 Are l stakeholders, other departments on campus, being consulted if they want to move in to the library? Concerned Culture, Brain, and Development, wasn\u2019t approached earlier in the process.\u00a0 \u201cFeel energized,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 definite need for a community center on campus and library learning commons is probably the best building. \u00a0\u00a0There is exciting potential to pool resources.\u00a0 (Pam Stone and Ryan McLaughlin, CBD).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Encouraged that Brightspot is consulting because they are looking at the emotional state of people, how they feel about using the library and services, when they map the experiences of students using the building. (Bob Crowley)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u201cNeed some place to have institutional memory, four thumbs up for a coffee shop!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are new and growing conversations within 5C regarding maker space.\u00a0 Talks about a network that is easy to access, a virtual wall where one can experience another institution\u2019s maker space without having to go there.\u00a0 (Roxy Finn).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">In the space in ASH where Chris Perry\u2019s students do animation there is a clubhouse culture. CS and NS have spaces but HACU\u2019s are scattered, the library could be the place where students from different disciplines could feel comfortable going in to.\u00a0 There are events in the lobby of ASH but non-CS students don\u2019t always come. (Ryan McLaughlin)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Students work in spaces with students with similar intellectual interests, in a space like the learning commons they could \u201cencounter people other than their own cohort, lessen feeling of isolation\u201d on campus. (Kristen Luschen)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u201cBeing cross-disciplinary is critically crucial,\u201d is a strong argument to Mellon for future funding, possibly building on NEH Preservation grant.\u00a0 We need to be clear about what the other 5 colleges are doing and how we are different.\u00a0 (Marjorie Hutter)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><b>What kinds of forums should be used to engage the community?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Ask student groups to come in (Gunther)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Faculty Meeting Agenda give a 20-minute overview and ask faculty to fill out the survey (Kristen Luschen)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Present to Staff Meeting, have facilitative focus groups where you invite different constituencies to assure discussion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Make sure to take our quick survey about the library: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamp.it\/lcsurvey\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">http:\/\/hamp.it\/lcsurvey<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library Learning Commons Project Friday 12\/6,1:00-2:00 p.m. FPH East Lecture Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-give-us-feedback","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}