Learning From Other Libraries

Objective

To understand the learning movement and identify the best practices performed by other learning-centered libraries.

Barbara Stripling
Stripling explains the processes of learning, and the problems libraries encounter when attempting to apply research concepts to planning and teaching. She focuses on individual instruction and advocates that teachers and librarians participate in “collaborative planning and teaching” to be effective in helping students with their learning processes (Stripling, 1995, 169).

Survey of Vanguard College Libraries

The survey sent to the library directors of the vanguard colleges in March 2003 consisted of the following questions:

What changes has your library made to its policies and procedures?
What changes have you made in the recruitment of librarians and staff?
What changes have you made in your library’s services such as reference, bibliographic instruction and circulation?
What learning outcomes have you realized due to your assessment of these services?
What professional development activities have you added for your employees?

Cynthia Fugate, Library Director at Cascadia Community College (WA)
“Hungry people can’t concentrate, so we let students eat in the library. Tired people can’t concentrate, so we let them nap in the library.”