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Re-Envisioning the Millersville University Library: Center for Knowledge Creation and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Re-Envisioning the Millersville University Library: Center for Knowledge Creation and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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Author(s): Marilyn McKinley Parrish (Millersville University, USA)and Greg Szczyrbak (Millersville University, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 18
Source title: Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Russell G. Carpenter (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2673-7.ch012

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Abstract

A scheduled infrastructure upgrade to an academic library building offered the opportunity for library faculty and staff at Millersville University to consider and implement a vision of a re-imagined library for the 21st century. With dramatic changes in learning spaces in higher education facilities since the building was designed and built in the 1960s, education, advocacy, and collaboration became central components of the planning process. This case study examines the design process of a library renovation project at a mid-sized regional comprehensive master’s-granting institution in south central Pennsylvania. The building of new partnerships, positive and persistent communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration strengthened the design process and set the stage for innovative uses of the new facility.

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