Looking at Your Library Space Differently: The No-Budget Approach to Library Redesign

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Looking at Your Library Space Differently: The No-Budget Approach to Library Redesign

Survey Results for Library Environmental Design Project

Intrinsic Motivation

The Environment & Behavior Connection

Net Gen Students

Disconnects Between Net Gen Students and Libraries

Net Gen Learning Style

Research Methodology

Dowling User Profile

Where Respondents Live

Weekly Hours Worked

Q1: Preferred Study Locations

Q4: Why Not DC Library

Q5: Comfort While Studying

Q7: Studying Distracters

Q9: Group Needs

Q10: Student Wishes for Change

Degree of Satisfaction with Environmental Conditions

DC Observations: Time and Sound Issues

Net Gen Literature Conclusions: “People Space v. Paper Space”

Net Gen Literature Conclusions: “Give them what they need”

Provide Comfortable Informal Spaces

Provide Group Study Rooms

Facilitate Multimedia Production

Dowling College User Mandates for Change

Move Users Closer to Paper

More Technology

Access Between Floors

So, Why Do You Want to Redo?

Need For New Space

Need For a New Additional Space

What’s the idea?

What do you have?

How can you make it work?

Getting Creative

Beg, Borrow and Rethink

Ambiance and Feelings

User’s Experience, Not Services

Students’ Library Experience

Students’ Experience

Users Experience

Ambiance and Marketing

Ambiance as Setting / Theme

Creation of Memory

Variety of Light Sources

Natural Lighting Appeal

Touch - Texture

Users’ Taste Rules

Author: Joyce Gotsch & Diane Holliday

E-mail: gotschj AT dowling.edu; hollidad AT dowling.edu

Homepage: http://library.dowling.edu/