Involve representatives from all stakeholder groups in the planning process, including the media specialist, teachers, administrators, students, and parents. Hold a brainstorming session. Get everyone together and let the ideas flow freely. Prioritize your ideas. Once you have a comprehensive list of suggestions for how your modern school library might be used, arrange them into three categories: high priority uses that are non-negotiable , significant those that would be nice to try if you can make it work , and low priority uses that are luxury items or even pipe dreams.
Invite public comment. Before you move any further, give all stakeholders a chance to comment on your ideas. I have worked in two, visited many and interviewed in some. I am amazed at the differences in the philosophy, the buildings, the staff, the value for education, the principles of collection etc.
What do you think? What would your ideal library be? The ideal library for me would have enough multiple copies of all the latest best-sellers that no one would have to be put on the 'holds' list. And every book would be in the right place on the shelf I had a rather difficult day at work, obviously. I realize this thread is a little outdated, but I just found LT yesterday.
I am not a librarian yet, but start the MLS program at University of KY in the fall and am mainly interested in cataloging and archives -- which is good since I will be doing a graduate assistantship in Special Collections working with EADs, etc I've read the book at least 3 times and still get goosebumps!
Secret, mazelike, mysterious and I'm the only one who gets to wander through the stacks. I'm not so much a people person I guess. I am a director of a public library now, and many things that I would find ideal about libraries can be found in it, along with many of the libraries I have been to in my life.
All of these are ideals, but every library I visit has the greatest thing in common My ideal library? In my pocket, with me all the time and completely available, with an awareness of where I was and the ability to predict the information that I'd want and have it ready and waiting.
I have joined many public libraries over the years - and am a librarian - and I can honestly say there hasn't been one that I couldn't find anything good to say about - from the old-fashioned, high-roofed one with sunlight from the tall, narrow windows glowing off well-worn golden wood floors replaced by a shiny, huge thing a few years later, good It would be a Carnegie, with towering ceilings, polished dark woodwork, green bankers lamps at all the study tables, and those comfy wooden chairs with the slatted backs.
Tall rolling ladders a plus. And it would be quiet, quiet, quiet. And I'd love to see a card catalog again someday For a typically liberal librarian I'm pretty damn conservative in some ways. For me, functional facilities are on the top of my list, and ideally that means inspiring architecture and good building design being a bit of an asthete but also a very demanding user!!! Other thoughts on an ideal library: -suits the needs of its community -building design shows respect for and understanding of users!
I'm a librarian and my ideal library would be one where patrons returned their books! Our small public library needs all it's materials and when they are kept out way past due date it hurts everyone. Ideally, I would like my library to be housed in a building like those old fashioned bookshops - all creaking boards and hidden staircases!
Lots of rugs, wooden polished floors, antique desks and comfy huge chairs, bookcases that lean together nice and high, and the smell of beeswax. Not that practical for research though, so maybe chuck in a few pcs next to the mullioned windows.
Re: 13, I have been to Los Cerritos and was gobsmacked by the library. I visited several libraries in one trip to the Los Angeles area because we were planning a new library. I'll try to post a link to my photos from that trip. These had been private because they recently moved from my now dead Yahoo Photos account, so I just now changed that. Los Cerritos is a fairyland library.
Another terrific children's library is Imaginon in Charlotte, NC. Must be nice to live in an area with money. Flickr Photos As for my ideal library, well, it swings wildly from something like those two to a dark, quiet building full of books and that library smell, with comfy chairs and NO PEOPLE, I would definitely love something with a lot of different kinds of areas for different reading moods.
A big sunny open-window-y area, for one I've been known to just take my books out on the lawn on occasion. I think the perfect library would be one that didn't have any administrators. It would have everything ever written in this world and others, and everything would be perfectly catalogued. But such a library would only exist in Heaven, because only God could ensure those standards.
Definitely light, airy, with comfy chairs, lots of windows, relaxing decor. I'm actually taken aback when I go into libraries that are quiet, it's so rare these days. Therefore, lots of quiet study space so people can use the library in a group without disturbing others. Library websites need to allow readers to participate in ways that they're used to from consumer sites — they need to offer the facility for rating, tagging, commenting, creating lists, flagging favourite quotes, uploading videos, or following other readers.
These are the kinds of activities and behaviours authors and publishers would like to foster as they build their own online audiences. This would transform the relationship with publishers because there's a BIG opportunity for publishers to provide access to their content via library channels — it's all about enriching reading experiences.
Let's focus on the positives too: Children's fiction borrowing has increased, by a small figure — 0. This is the eighth year running that children's borrowing has risen. Libraries have been working hard and imaginatively to support children's reading and it shows. It would be tragic if the current cuts undermine this work, especially as reading for pleasure is so key to children's life chances; there's a proven relationship to their social mobility.
We're fragmenting the national network: What concerns me greatly is that the breaking up of the national library network — by turning libraries over to community groups, trusts and charities to run — reduces the opportunity for a collective effort to negotiate with publishers, technology providers and so forth to get better services for library users.
How are community groups and so on supposed to deal with big publishers and the like alone? It is going to result in a very fragmented and weaker system. Our community libraries in Gloucestershire are not part of the statutory provision and so really are going it alone. It results in a two-tier service with no accountability or joined up thinking that's reliant on philanthropy. To me this seems regressive and completely illogical.
We need direction and leadership: I think it's a huge problem that there's no direction or leadership in public libraries at the moment — just a lot of flailing around and head-in-sand-burying.
This has left public libraries very vulnerable. The fight to save our public libraries has felt like a very hopeless one for me as there has been no one with any teeth to really fight the battle with us.
They salvaged computers destined for the landfill and installed music-authoring software on them. Teachers balked because the library was no longer quiet, but students liked it, and many at-risk students became frequent visitors. Some even admitted to Ackroyd that the only reason they still came to school was to go to the lab. When the principal witnessed this new level of engagement, she decided to support a full library renovation, funded by rent collected from a company that used the space every summer.
They hired an experienced library consultant and took inspiration from libraries designed for younger patrons. Rooms that had been used for offices or storage were turned into student areas. The new surroundings were also accompanied by a new attitude. We are more like an academic library now.
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