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Northwestern University’s
Partnerships for Success
EDUCAUSE MidWestRegional Conference
March 17, 2008
Working jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor
The process by which people/organizations work together to accomplish a common mission
Shared control over decisionmaking Work that is done jointly to improve the efforts of
all The process people with different ways of seeing
the world interact to learn from each other in order to get better at what ever they are trying to do
Growing imperative in higher ed More productive use of space and
resources Enhanced student learning New perspectives on service
Faculty in the classroom Academic departments Administrative departments Information Technology department
In the library On campus In the classroom When renovation is taking place
Location: Evanston, north suburb of Chicago
15,700 FTE students Doctoral/Research Universities–Extensive Library
One main building; two branch libraries (one in Chicago)
278 staff 4.6 million volumes Open 122 hours/week
Writing Center Writing Place Career Services Career Lab School of Continuing Studies (Chicago)
Writing Place Math Place
Project Café Project Café Training Rooms
WCAS faculty Pilot project for info lit
2East is a Northwestern University faculty resource center located on the 2nd floor, East tower of the University Library
Established to promote scholary technologies and bibliographic resourse activities
NUL’s Digital Media services, Collection management, and NUIT’s Academic Technologies
Digital projects Course-management software Faculty workshops on technology Presentation on technology applications
Melville J. Herskovits, Maps of Africa digitization project
Partnership of Digital Media Services, Collections Management, Academic Technologies
Program offered jointly by the the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Academic Technologies, and the University Library
Workshop format and is held over five consecutive days
Faculty must be nominated by their chairs or deans in order to participate in the program
Specifically intended for NU faculty who want to take advantage of the teaching and research capabilities of digital media, course management systems, online archives, advanced visualization technologies, electronic journals, and other emerging technologies
Partnership between NUL Digital Media Services and Academic Technologies
Initial project funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Winterton Collection of East African photographs: 7,610 photographs depicting life in East Africa between the 1860s and 1960s
Partnership between Library and NUIT Collaborative space Highly desirable space at library
entrance Test bed for new technologies First stop for all patrons Shared staffing
5100 sq. ft Phase One: Summer and Fall 2004
complete renovation infrastructure and carpeting installed
Phase Two: Winter 2005 furniture installed official opening
Phase Three: Summer 2005 completion of Group Project Room
Cultural differences Changed expectations Expect the unexpected Good model for new space “We love it when a plan comes
together”
TE + IE = S Growth on both sides Model for future learning and
collaboration spaces
Renovation of Science and Engineering Library (North Campus)
Renovation and repurposing of Schaffner Library (Chicago Campus)
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Bob Davis, Associate DirectorAcademic [email protected]
Denise Shorey, Head of ReferenceUniversity [email protected]
Slide presentation at depot.northwestern.edu/~rda164/Partners
Case study in Learning Spaceswww.educause.edu/learningspaces
InfoCommons websiteinfocommons.northwestern.edu
Copyright Bob Davis and Denise Shorey, 2008
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