Creating a Learning Commons

Lynn D. Lampert is the coordinator of information literacy and instruction at California State University (CSU)–Northridge. Lynn served as a key member of the Oviatt Library’s Learning Commons Planning Team, which managed the $2.5 million learning commons renovation project. Lynn also helped develop and design the learning commons’s new makerspace area, which opened to students in the fall of 2014. Coleen Meyers-Martin is coordinator of outreach services at the California State University (CSU)–Northridge’s Oviatt Library. In 2013, she coordinated a multifaceted marketing campaign that promoted the Library’s $2.5 million learning commons renovation to students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Foreword by Donald Beagle
Preface
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Learning Commons Library Spaces
Chapter 2. Building Your Foundation
Chapter 3. Partnerships and Strategies for Successful Programming
Chapter 4. Architects, Designers, Contractors, and Budgets Oh My!
Chapter 5. Strategic Planning for Learning Commons Technology
Chapter 6. Choosing What Technology Goes into a Learning Commons
Chapter 7. Marketing and Promotion
Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning in a Learning Commons Space: Reference Services, Instruction, and Outreach
Chapter 9. Assessing Learning Commons Spaces and Reviewing Lessons Learned
Chapter 10. Successful Learning Commons Partnerships
Chapter 11. The Future of Library Learning Commons Spaces
Appendix A. Learning Commons Survey
Appendix B. Marketing Action Plan