EDUCAUSE Live! June 29, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)

What to Do While Your Building or Renovation Project Is On Hold

Special Guest

Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Joan K. Lippincott is the associate executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE. She has been with CNI since 1990. At CNI, she has provided leadership for programs such as New Learning Communities, Assessment of the Networked Environment, Working Together, and Learning Spaces. She has written articles and given presentations on topics including networked information, learning spaces, collaboration among professional groups, assessment, and teaching and learning in the networked environment. Her chapter, “Net Generation Students and Libraries,” in Educating the Net Gen has received wide distribution. Lippincott is chair of the Association of College & Research Libraries New Publications Committee, past chair of the editorial board of College & Research Libraries News, and serves on the board of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

She previously held positions at the libraries of Cornell University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, and SUNY at Brockport. In addition, she worked at the Research and Policy Analysis division of the American Council on Education and the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance at the University of Maryland. Lippincott received her PhD in higher education policy, planning, and administration from the University of Maryland, her MLS from SUNY Geneseo, and her AB from Vassar College.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Joan K. Lippincott, and the topic will be "What to Do While Your Building or Renovation Project Is On Hold."

Many campuses will be postponing or curtailing new building projects and renovations due to the current economic climate, but the pressing need for newly configured, technology-enabled spaces has not gone away. This session will describe a number of low or no-cost strategies for moving institutions toward their overall goals for new learning spaces, particularly in libraries and computing centers, while waiting for the actual construction or renovation. In the process, these strategies may help campuses clarify what they hope the new spaces will accomplish, assist units in being able to implement new, user-driven services as soon as the new spaces are occupied, and forge new campus partnerships.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• EDUCAUSE Quarterly issue on Learning Spaces
• Learning Space Design
• A Planning Process for Successful Learning/Information Commons
• Space Strategies for the New Learning Landscape
• ELI's Learning Principles & Practices: Learning Space Design
• Learning Space Design Constituent Group
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars

Additional Resources

• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
• Information Commons Listserv