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We are glad to let you know that the Library has been able to convert another space into a Group Study Room for you – and it is in the 24-hour Learning Commons!
The new room is “LC-18” and you can now see it on the library floor plan. For now it just has a table and chairs and a white board. We will add some color and a monitor screen later.
In cooperation with several University departments, the Library has taken action to ensure your safety in the Learning Commons.
Some of these may cause you inconvenience. Please be understanding and cooperate with our efforts, and with instructions from Library and Security staff.
Thank you!
We need your comments on some furniture samples for the 1/F and LG1 renovations!
Please visit the furniture samples area on LG1 behind the Media Counter, and write your comments on the posted sheets of paper.
So far, we have several low and high chairs for you to evaluate. More furniture samples will be coming in a week or so, including a table or two.
All of 1/F, and part of LG1 will undergo some renovation during the next couple months.
We will work with the contractors to reduce the disturbance, especially as the exam period approaches.
Please be understanding as we work to improve the Library’s study environments.
The Library’s Learning Commons was highlighted in the recent 2013 issue of Design Space Magazine, republished here with permission of Design Space and Interface®
The Library is starting to receive samples of furniture under consideration for the Learning Commons.
The furniture samples area is near the front of the Library, around the corner from the Reference Desk.
One artistic Library user was doing some lovely watercolor painting in a quiet corner of the Library over the weekend.
It’s beautiful, and we also appreciate how carefully they kept the furniture clean. 🙂
Now that the glass wall work on LG1 has finished, the closed off study area on LG4 has reopened.
The stairwell from G/F all the way down to LG4 also opened this morning.
Preparation works for the new Learning Commons have begun!
Sorry for the noise and dust in the Library – we’re doing as much of the nasty work during the Winter break as we can.
You can print to the networked copier in the Information Commons from any Windows or Macintosh computer. All you have to do is download and install the driver for the printer.
Visit the Wireless Printing section of the IC’s Printing page for the driver download links and other details.
Dear Colleagues and Students,
_*Open Forum on Learning Commons*_
You are cordially invited to join the Library Open Forum to give us your
ideas on the development plans for the Learning Commons (LC) which will
be created on Library LG1 floor in 2011. Details of the Forum are as
follows:
/ *Date: Monday, 27 September 2010
Time: 3 pm
Place: Library Gallery
http://library.ust.hk/info/maps/blink/gf-lobby.html, G/F
Language: English *//*(Views expressed in Cantonese and
Putonghua are also welcome)*/
As part of the space planning for 334, the Library has been working
towards building a student-oriented Learning Commons where it will
bring together services and facilities to support learning and teaching
at the University. The LC will provide a variety of learning and study
spaces as well as an e-learning Lab and a refreshment zone. Services
will be provided in a way that builds on the strength of various
academic support units, including Center for Enhanced Learning and
Teaching (CELT), Information Technology Services Center (ITSC), Language
Centre, Library, Publishing Technology Center (PTC) and Student Affairs
Office (SAO). While the Library is actively working with FMO and the
design firm on the layout plans and furniture options, we would very
much like to hear your views and expectations about this new learning hub.
Last year, we reported that as part of space planning for the 3-3-4 migration, the Library proposed converting most of the current LG1 floor into a 24-hour-capable expanded Learning Commons environment, as part of a swapping arrangement involving the provision of space in the building expansion.
The Library’s Systems & Digital Services staff have just finished a program to show how busy the Information Commons (IC) is.
By using this program, you can see which computers are in use, and which ones are available.
