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What is the Learning Commons Service Model in North America?

Presentation by Barbara Tierney for the Japan Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) Symposium, University of Tokyo, January 29, 2016

Books

Bailey, D. Russell and Barbara Tierney.  Transforming Library Service Through Information Commons (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2008).

Beagle, Donald Robert.  The Information Commons Handbook, with contributions from D. Russell Bailey and Barbara Tierney (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2006).

Bennett, Scott.  Libraries Designed for Learning (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003).

Brown, Sherri, et al. Next-gen Learning Spaces (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2014).

Forrest, Charles, and Martin Halbert, Ed.  A  Field Guide to the Information Commons (Chicago: Scarecrow, 2009).

Gould, Thomas H.P.  Creating the Academic Commons:  Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research (Plymouth, U.K.:  Scarecrow Press, 2011).

Schader, Barbara, Ed.  Learning Commons: Evolution and Collaborative Essentials (London: Oxford/Chandos, 2008).

Stewart, Christopher. The Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Construction, Planning, and Design of New Library Space (Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2010).

Woodward, Jeannette A. Creating the Customer-Driven Academic Library (Chicago: American Library Association, 2009).

Articles and Studies

Association of College & Research Libraries.  Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.  (Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2015).

http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework

Bailey, Donald Russell and Barbara Tierney.  Information Commons Redux: Concept, evolution, and transcending the tragedy of the Commons, Journal of Academic Librarianship. 28, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 2002): 277-286.

Beagle, Donald, Conceptualizing an Information Commons, Journal of Academic Librarianship 25, no. 2 (March 1999): 82-89.

Beagle, Donald. From Learning Commons to Learning Outcomes: Assessing Collaborative Services and Spaces, (Research Bulletin). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, (September 27, 2011) http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

Beagle, Donald. The Learning Commons in Historical Context.  (2011).

Jefferson, Charissa Odelia.  Academic Libraries in the Digital Age in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015). (Vol. 7: 4815-4822)

McMullen, Susan. US Academic Libraries: Today's Learning Commons Model. Peb Exchange. (2009). 

Academic Library Conferences

Seventh Canadian Learning Commons Conference (June 2014)
http://www.clcc2014.ubishops.ca/home.html

Designing Libraries for the 21st Century (Sept. 2015)
http://www.ncsu.edu/mckimmon/cpe/opd/libraries/index.html

Learning Spaces Websites

North Carolina State University.  Hunt Library images.

University of Calgary.  Taylor Family Digital Library images.

University of Pennsylvania.  David B. Weigle Commons images.
http://commons.library.upenn.edu/

Organization Websites

Coalition for Networked Information
https://www.cni.org/

EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/

Learning Spaces Collaboratory
http://www.pkallsc.org/

Latest Trends Affecting NA Academic Libraries

Association of College & Research Libraries. Planning and Review Committee.
Environmental Scan 2015. Chicago, Illinois:  American Library Association, 2015.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/EnvironmentalScan15.pdf

Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., and Freeman, A.
NMC (New Media Consortium) Horizon Report:  2015 Higher Education Edition.
Austin, Texas:  The New Media Consortium, 2015.
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-higher-education-edition/

Dahlstrom, Edan, and Jacqueline Bichsel.
ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2014.
Louisville, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research, October 2014.
Available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar

Ithaka S & R US Library Survey 2013.
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/ithaka-sr-us-library-survey-2013-2/