The Learning Commons Seven Simple Steps To Transform Your Library 1st Edition Pamela Colburn Harland by Pamela Colburn Harland instant download after payment.

The goal of the learning-commons strategy is to provide a centralized, "go-to" location for all user's seeking help on the complex issues of teaching, researching, and being a global citizen in our changing world. A library organized around the learning-commons construct fosters collaborative work and social interaction between users during research and learning. This paradigm also encourages use of innovative technologies and information resources. Transforming a traditional library into a thriving learning commons does take some planning and effort, however.

Each of the seven chapters in this book explains a simple step that a librarian can take to improve their facility. Photographs and concrete examples of the suggested strategies are included; checklists at the end of each chapter serve as indicators for measuring progress. This text is useful for library administrators in school settings (both public and private, K-12) as well as academic, public, and special libraries.

Pamela Colburn Harland is librarian at Plymouth Regional High School in Plymouth, NH. She holds a masters degree in information science and has worked in public libraries, academic libraries, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as a research librarian. Harland received the 2009 Intellectual Freedom Award from the New Hampshire School Library Media Association and is the recipient of the 2010 New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award for Educational Media Professionals.