Libraries | Student Unions

Lesson Plans for Libraries

Libraries are not what they used to be. Now that information can be accessed anywhere, anytime, the library has morphed into something more — a learning lab, a conclave for collaboration, an idea incubator, and a social hub where campus life and community events converge.

As libraries evolve, new purpose-driven areas are emerging. Steelcase researchers have plotted them as a quadrant of four distinct zones: public and private, individual and group work areas. Each has to support multiple types of activities. The need for access to technology, adjacency, and visual and acoustical considerations are among them. The demand for information hasn’t changed, but access, delivery and utilization has. NBS can help you rethink the library, student union or similar space for the way students learn today.