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Bibliography & Links

Compiled by Bryan Sinclair

Books / Reports

Beagle, Donald Robert. The Information Commons Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2006.

Bennett, Scott. Libraries Designed for Learning. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub122abst.html

De Rosa, Cathy, et al. College students' perceptions of libraries and information resources: A report to the OCLC membership. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 2006, http://www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm

Foster, Nancy Fried, and Susan Gibbons, eds. Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2007, http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/downloadables/Foster-Gibbons_cmpd.pdf or
http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-4436

Haas, Leslie, et al. The Information Commons [SPEC Kit 281]. Washington, D.C.: Assoc. of Research Libraries, 2004.

Joint Information Systems Committee. Designing spaces for effective learning: A guide to 21st century learning space design. Bristol, UK: JISC, 2006,
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISClearningspaces.pdf

Library as place: Rethinking roles, rethinking space. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005, http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub129abst.html

Oblinger, Diana G., ed. Learning Spaces, An EDUCAUSE e-Book, August 2006, http://www.educause.edu/books/learningspaces/10569

In particular:

Brown, Malcolm, and Phillip Long. "Trends in Learning Space Design."
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102i.pdf (Chap. 10)

Chism, Nancy Van Note. "Challenging Traditional Assumptions and Rethinking Learning Spaces."
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102b.pdf (Chap. 2)

Lippincott, Joan K. "Linking the Information Commons to Learning."
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102g.pdf (Chap. 7)

Lomas, Cyprien, and Diana G. Oblinger. "Student Practices and Their Impact on Learning Spaces."
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102e.pdf (Chap. 5)

Articles

Albanese, Andrew Richard. Campus Library 2.0. Library Journal, April 15, 2004, 30-33, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.wncln.wncln.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12880423&site=ehost-live

Caldwell, Tracey. "Future Shock." Information World Review 225 (June 2006): 19-22,
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.wncln.wncln.org:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=
21202049&site=ehost-live

Carlson, Scott. "An Anthropologist in the Library." Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 17, 2007, A26-A28, http://0-chronicle.com.wncln.wncln.org/weekly/v53/i50/50a02601.htm

Carlson, Scott. "A Bigger and Better Computing Complex." Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2006, A35-A37, http://0-chronicle.com.wncln.wncln.org/weekly/v52/i32/32a03501.htm

Church, Jennifer. "The evolving Information Commons." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 1 (2005): 75-81.

Dallis, Diane, and Carolyn Walters. "Reference services in the commons environment." Reference Services Review 34, no. 2 (2006): 248-60.

Gardner, Susan, and Susanna Eng. "What Students Want: Generation Y and the Changing Function of the Academic Library." portal: Libraries & the Academy 5, no. 3 (2005): 405-420,
http://0-muse.jhu.edu.wncln.wncln.org/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/
v005/5.3gardner.pdf

Malenfant, Chuck. "The information commons as a collaborative workspace." Reference Services Review 34, no. 2 (2006): 279-86.

Marshall, Ann, Vicki Burns, and Judi Briden. "Know Your Students." Library Journal, Nov. 1, 2007, 26-29, http://0-search.ebscohost.com.wncln.wncln.org/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=aph&AN=27363500&site=ehost-live

Oblinger, Diana G. "Leading the Transition from Classrooms to Learning Spaces." EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 28, no. 1 (2005), 14-18, http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm05/eqm0512.asp

Sinclair, Bryan. "Commons 2.0: Library Spaces Designed for Collaborative Learning." EDUCAUSE Quarterly 30, no. 4 (2007): 4-6, http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/
Commons20LibrarySpac/45534

Spencer, Mary Ellen. "Evolving a new model: the information commons." Reference Services Review 34, no. 2 (2006): 242-247.

Waters, John K. "The Learning Commons: The Library Morphs." Campus Technology, April 1, 2008, http://campustechnology.com/articles/60299/

Whitchurch, Michael J., Belliston, C. Jeffrey, and William Baer. "Information commons at Brigham Young University: past, present, and future." Reference Services Review 34, no. 2 (2006): 261-278.

Conferences / Presentations

"Evolving Library Space: From 'Information Commons' to 'Collaborative Learning Commons." Presentation by Bryan Sinclair (AUL for Public Services, UNC Asheville), Electronic Resources in Libraries Conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, February 22-24, 2007, http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/moodle/

"The Information Commons and the Future of Innovation, Scholarship, and Creativity." Presentation by Gigi Sohn (President and Founder, Public Knowledge), EDUCAUSE Live! February 15, 2007, https://www.educause.edu/LIVE073

"Towards a Learning Ecology," Canadian Learning Commons Conference, University of Guelph Library and Learning Commons, June 19-20, 2006, http://www.learningcommons.ca/

"The Commons - Libraries as Dynamic Learning Spaces: New Orleans 2006." Presentation by Russell Bailey (Library Director, Phillips Memorial Library, Providence College) and Barbara Tierney (Information Commons Desk Coordinator, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte), http://library.uncc.edu/infocommons/conference/neworleans2006/

"Millennials: If You Build It, Will They Come?" ALA Library Administration & Management Association (LAMA) Pre-conference Program, New Orleans. June 23, 2006. Presentation by Aaron Cohen (Library Consultant, Aaron Cohen Associates); Larry Corbus (President, Corbus Library Consultants); Marta Deyrup (Associate Professor, Seton Hall University); Judy Luther (President, Informed Strategies); Richard Sweeney (University Librarian, New Jersey Institute of Technology), http://www.library.njit.edu/staff-folders/sweeney/LAMA/Introduction.ppt

"A Space for the Future: Collaborative Learning Environments," Aaron Cohen Associates Workshop, Northeastern University Library, November 3, 2006, http://www.acohen.com/north.htm

Links / Misc.

Learning Commons Blog - Georgia State University Library -  http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=82

Collaborative Facilities - Project sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and hosted by Dartmouth College in an effort to assist institutions in planning, implementing, and evaluating "collaborative facilities," http://www.dartmouth.edu/~collab/

Information Commons: A directory of innovative services and resources in academic libraries - http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/library/infocommons/ic_home.html

Studio for Creative Inquiry - Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cmu.edu/studio/index.html