Saturday, May 27, 2006

Group study rooms

We're setting out to design "high tech" group study rooms as part of our Information & Learning Commons and are beginning to think about the tools that we'll put in the rooms. Some components are obvious-- computers, flat screen monitors, electronic and regular white boards, video cameras, conference tables, wireless, etc. Since the rooms are in the library, should we think about a few books too? A dictionary, almanac, a few basic computer manuals or style and citation guides-- all information is very probably available on the computer too, but it could be handy sometimes to have one of the group do a quick lookup. Too 1.0?