'Let’s be brief(ed)': Library design, education pedagogy and service delivery

Abstract

University libraries are increasingly being reassessed in the role they play in supporting student learning and academic research, in managing evolving pedagogical practices in education and in service delivery modelling. The University of Melbourne for a number of years has embarked on a series of library refurbishments with the opportunity in 2010 via a new building programme to provide a purpose designed library facility embedded in the new Melbourne School of Design building for the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. This facility offered the opportunity to reflect on and consider the current and future role of a library embedded as it is in a faculty dedicated to built envi..