21st Century Library / Learning Space Design

...being a brief (what?) aide-memoire to an excellent seminar held at Blackpool & The Fylde College yesterday.

The Loop Learning Resource Centre takes the Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caley as a starting point (this is important, financial people) and adopts and adapts that centre's principles into what appears to be a very workable solution for us lesser mortals in the FE industry.

Thanks to Chris and her team.


Cast in order of appearance:
Blackpool & The Fylde College
The Loop (MySpace)
Les Watson
Les @ YouTube (JISC InfoNet)
Embervision
Fiona Emberton's blog
Intellident Library Solutions
Curious (what happened to the Oranj?)

Supporting documents:
Desingning spaces for effective learning (JISC, 2006)
Planning & designing technology-rich learning spaces (JISC infoNet Toolkit)
Spaces for learning (Scottish Funding Council)

Postscript:
How long before this newly re-found optimism is dashed on the rocks of managerial indifference and internecine (internetcine?) wars. Watch this space...

After the silence

Don't forget. Firefox 3 available for download tomorrow. Should be here.






We seem to have reached the low-tide mark of this venture. We are not time rich. Google (Blogger) pisses me off with its endless captcha hysterics which eventually screw the formatting: there must be another way - IP address recognition? Wordpress? Joomla! And colleagues, the co in collaboration means with. Remember that.

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