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Learning Environments at Virginia Tech University Libraries

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A presentation for Virginia Tech's NLI program on Learning Environments in the University Libraries.

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What is it? •  Goal: Integrated system •  Websites (LibGuides) •  Videos/Screencasts •  Interactive Tutorials

•  Interested? Please let me know!

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Why do we do it? •  Support your teaching •  Support library teaching •  Support students at their point-of-need

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What can we do for you? •  Create a course website •  Create screencasts or videos to support

your assignments •  Enable online, blended, or flipped

teaching models

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What is it? •  Circulation (materials) •  Circulation (technology) •  Reserves

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Why do we do it? •  Enable access to physical materials •  Provide access to/be a sandbox for

consumer technologies •  Provide materials for faculty research

and to support student assignments •  Support courses through reserves

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What can we do for you? •  Equipment •  Bookrunner •  Notices via text message •  Reserves •  Reciprocal Borrowing

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What is it? •  Research support •  Point-of-need •  Personalized and in-depth

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Why do we do it? •  Navigate the library’s systems •  catalogs, databases, discovery layers,

organizational structure •  Learning at the students’ point-of-need,

provides a high return

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What can we do for you? •  Help identify challenging aspects of

assignments for students •  Be a resource that you can list on your

syllabus

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What is it? •  The Rover Program •  Also emerges across Learning

Environments: •  Online •  Reference •  Spaces

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Why do we do it? •  Learn more about our users •  Understand how students are learning

in a physical learning environment: how they collaborate, what tools they use, etc.

•  Provide help throughout the building

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What can we do for you? •  Share what we know about student

learning in context •  Be a resource you can share with your

students: if they’re unsure how to find things, are confused about the building, etc.

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What is it? •  Communities: •  1st floor learning spaces •  2nd floor “Commons” and 4th floor group

study •  3rd and 5th quiet floors

•  Technology throughout the building

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Why do we do it? •  Not just a study space: •  Space designed for learning

•  Intentionally designed to meet the needs identified by collaborative and multimedia projects •  Grounded in data about how students use

the space

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What can we do for you? •  We can support collaborative projects

you might assign •  We can support multimedia projects you

might assign

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What is it? •  Partners (Writing Center, Comm Lab,

ePortfolios, Career Services, etc.) •  Course exhibits •  Programming •  PAWS, Visible Scholars, etc.

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Why do we do it? •  Library as interdisciplinary hub •  Exposure to ideas •  Showcase campus scholarship (both

faculty and students) •  Highlight Virginia Tech’s innovations

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What can we do for you? •  Showcase your students’ work •  Showcase your work •  Host academic events for your

discipline •  “Match-make” with other classes with

similar goals and learning outcomes

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