Jeeze, I just notice that it’s been almost a month since my last LIT blog. Well, I’ve been busy! I’ve been working on the Phase 3/4 planning, ordering staff computers (which took way longer than expected because of the local interpretation of the Governor’s directive), upgrading student computers, overseeing the Pharos Printer changeover, changing the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Building planning’
July 10, 2008
Learning cave mid-summer meeting
The learning cave folks (me, Beckie, and Erica) met this morning with Don and Tessa to talk about furniture and other issues that we’ve been working on.
Tessa showed us the proposed KI “Torsion on the Go!” chair that the University is putting in classrooms and we need to show them to the library staff. [...]
June 11, 2008
Hey brother, can you spare $20,000,000?
In this cultural climate, where funding for new library buildings can be difficult to find, I find inspiration in stories like the one about UA professor Soyeon Shim. She found a way to get 2,000 donors to give $24m so that her department could have a new academic building at the UA.
Ok, to be fair, [...]
June 10, 2008
ACRL Webcast: Coming of age online
I’m sort of liveblogging (without the snark) from the ACRL Webcast of their study called “Coming of Age Online.“
A couple of highlights so far:
They mention that they found students use what they call “cell phone culture” to kick off their research.
Basically, the students would call friends and family and ask “what do you think of [...]
June 2, 2008
Welcome back
Well, I’m back in my seat here at work after three weeks of cleaning diapers and sleeping very little. I don’t think if would be poor form of me to admit that I would rather be at home with my little girl. But I’m here and here’s what I’ve been reading today:
Eeepc Goes [...]
April 29, 2008
Lynda Gratton: Competition or Collaboration?
I was up late a few nights ago because (I don’t know if you know this) my pregnant girlfriend has a bladder the size of a pea. I guess carrying around little Bostelle 2.0 tends to squish up all the other organs. Any way, she needs to get up every hour or so, [...]
February 19, 2008
3 meetings later…
I have had three meetings about the new space and right now there’s so much stuff swimming around in my head it feels like it could explode. But I guess I can report this:
The Architects are very familiar with building libraries. They are here to assist and I am in contact with them through Catherine [...]
February 7, 2008
iPod Touch, bigger bandwidth, and your cable company
One of the emerging trends in the cable industries is toward differential charging for internet usage. In other words: give you all the pipe that you can afford. Already Time-Warner is trialing hard bandwidth caps and tiered pricing for data in Texas (is Texas the harbinger of ALL evil?) where they limit downloads and charge [...]
February 7, 2008
Learning Caves
I met yesterday with Beckie Etheridge and Stern Neill in order to talk about their idea to apply for a Founder’s Endowment Grant that would transform some spaces in the library into “Learning Caves.” Basically, what they want to do is take the area currently housing the maps collection and the ADA workstation (and a [...]
