Designing an Academic Library as a Place and a Space: How a Robotic Storage System Will Create a 21st Century Library Design

Autor/inn/en	Bostick, Sharon L.; Irwin, Bryan
Titel	Designing an Academic Library as a Place and a Space: How a Robotic Storage System Will Create a 21st Century Library Design
Quelle	In: Educational Facility Planner, 46 (2012) 1, S.8-12 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-7417
Schlagwörter	Academic Libraries; Educational Facilities Design; Educational Facilities Improvement; Library Facilities; Storage; Library Materials; Library Automation; Robotics; Missouri + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Colleges; University; Universities; Libary; Libraries; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Universität; Bibliothek; Hochschulbibliothek; Speicherung; Robotertechnik
Abstract	Renovating, expanding or building new libraries today is a challenge on several levels. Libraries in general are faced with image issues, such as the assumption that a library building exists only to house print material followed by the equally erroneous assumption that everything is now available online, thus rendering a physical building obsolete. Libraries are also faced with serious funding issues, and with the basic reality that space is at a premium. In academic libraries, the way students use libraries is changing as are their expectations of a library. Many academic library buildings are older and were designed to protect printed material and other physical items, such as artifacts or recordings. Spaces for people, while important, were by necessity secondary to this protection. This has led to many buildings functioning as more of a warehouse than a center for scholarly and academic activity. Services, reader spaces, and classrooms tended to be secondary and available only as stack space allowed. The consistent incorporation of new technologies is drastically altering this environment. New technologies include advances in building materials and design options that allow light to become a major feature in library design, creating a bright, open, welcoming space. This creates opportunities to develop flexible, innovative learning spaces. And new storage technologies are being used to create and expand vital learning spaces while keeping valuable texts and other items close by and easily retrievable. In this article, the author discusses how a robotic storage system at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) creates a 21st century library design. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10