Presentation Notes - The Background

Before prescribing a space plan solution we need to turn to the latest information we have on libraries: what are they ? How are they changing ?

Western Libraries: Libraries-as-Place & Libraries-as-Space Strategic Plan 2007-11.

Gibbons, Susan. "The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student" (2007).

Council on Library and Information Resources.
“Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space (2005).

ALA. "American Academic Library Trends 1999-2009" (December 2009)

This helps to frame the user groups and stakeholders. Clarifying needs and possibilities within assessment made in the past draws on the strength of the Western Libraries culture of assessment.