The most recent edition of Tech Therapy examines The Future of College Libraries. They talk about planning library spaces. It’s all a bit basic, but they provide a good overview of some of the big issues.

My workshop on Tuesday seemed to go well. I had very engaged and participatory attendees which makes all the difference in the world.

As I promised the group, I have uploaded my presentation to my slideshare space and it can be found here.

Rudy Leon, the new Learning Commons Librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign’s Undergraduate Library posted a request to try and make a list of other “learning commons” librarians. I spoke with Rudy at Internet Librarian and she and I talked about trying to have a more vocal and collaborative relationship with other librarians who run a learning/library/information commons. Her request is a first step in that direction. So, if you are in charge of a commons and want to connect to a larger community, please go to her blog and respond!

Time does fly. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was contacted about doing a workshop for the Metropolitan Library System based on the presentation I gave at Computers in Libraries, but that was back in June. The workshop is in November, and I just made my flight and hotel arrangements.

More information (including how to register) about the workshop can be found here.

I was contacted by someone from the Metropolitan Library System who saw my presentation at Computers in Libraries and asked if I would turn my presentation into a half-day workshop for them. Don’t have any details yet, but it will probably be sometime in the fall.

The NYTimes has an interesting article today by Allison Arieff about the importance of environment in learning situations. It’s more about outdoor spaces for younger students than I dealt with in my presentation at CiL, but there is still a lot we can learn from this discussion.