Library Renovations

Library Renovations

The renovation of the main library of St. Stephens University has succeeded in providing users with a space that provides a place on campus that provides a social, interactive, engaging and student owned environment with a technology wired library that provides areas for reading, areas for study, references and access services, collaborative study rooms, print and digital collections, media facilities, cafes, information commons, conference space, classroom, displays for art and other media display.

As a student who accesses the library remotely, I see that libraries need to translate the benefit from the physical spaces to those who access the library remotely. Through careful planning the library can be a place that is as accessible as someone who walks in its doors everyday through specialized services and by revamping services and collections.

Through the revamping of services and collection distance educations students can find the services easier to access and use. Service can include live web chat, web conferencing that allows the student to share screens, online request forms, quicker delivery of books from an interlibrary loan request, and provide the student with the ability to attend a classroom virtually with the use of cameras and other equipment.

Distance education students should also feel that they are part of the libraries community albeit remotely.