[Baynet] Infopeople's webinar "Creating Learning Spaces in Your Library"

[Linda Rodenspiel]

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might be interested in this webinar.

 

Title:  Creating Learning Spaces in Your Library

 

Date and time: February 18, 2009, 12pm - 1pm

 

This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this
Infopeople webinar.  Pre-registration is not required.

 

For more information and to participate in the February 18 webinar, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/285/index.html 

 

 

Libraries are assuming a much larger educational role in the community --
supporting preschool learning, home schooling, bi-lingual and literacy
training, professional development, school curriculum support, and
continuing education programs. Libraries are both offering and hosting a
range of learning activities including classes and presentations, tutoring,
and independent learning activities.

 

Although it is true that learning can take place anywhere, library spaces
can be designed, inexpensively remodeled, or flexibly furnished to
accommodate learning activities for all ages and abilities and for all kinds
of learning from hands on instruction to using your building as a learning
tool. Would you like to: 

 

. Include an Early Childhood Learning Area? 

. Host the local college's Senior Citizen program? 

. Offer Homework Center facilities occasionally? 

. Teach by exhibition? 

 

This webinar will provide an overview of various types of learning spaces
including the best practices from academic learning commons, museums and
discovery zones, training rooms, and group and individual learning spaces.
Discussion will cover various learning styles for different age groups and
how your library can accommodate these. 

 

Participants will learn how to identify more options for creating learning
spaces in their existing facilities, expanding their ability to sponsor
learning activities and create new partnerships within their community. The
webinar includes a downloadable PowerPoint presentation featuring
illustrative images and links to websites and products. 

 

Speaker:  Linda Demmers.  As a library consultant, Linda Demmers has
extensive experience in library facility planning with professional
background as a librarian, planning consultant, and owners' representative
on a wide variety of new construction and renovation projects. She
specializes in planning process, program documentation, broad-based
community and user involvement, and long-term owner client relationships. As
a professional librarian, she was the Library Director at Pine Manor
College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and Phillips Academy at Andover,
where she planned library construction projects from the initial stages
through management of the construction project. From 1989 to 1994, she was
the Project Coordinator for the USC Leavey Library. 

 

 

If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived
version the day following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:

 

http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived   

 

Webinar:  Creating Learning Spaces in Your Library

Date: February 18, 2009

Time:  12pm - 1pm

Speaker: Linda Demmers

 

 

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