Teaching Strategy (2013-1018), “To promote, embed and develop safe, yet challenging, learning environments that support active learning, through a learning and teaching ethos under- pinned by current and appropriate discipline-specific and pedagogic re- search and scholarship, building, where appropriate, upon new and emerging technologies.”
From a library perspective, the opening of a new campus in Belfast would drive significant change across the service. The largest campus library at Jordanstown would merge with the smallest campus library at the existing Belfast campus to deliver one combined library space at the new campus. This had obvious implications not only in relation to the integration and manage- ment of print-based collections but also from an organisational design perspec- tive.
Design principles
The coalescence of a new build and the development of a learner-centred curriculum provided a significant opportunity to drive a strategically focussed value proposition for the Library Service through deeper align- ment and integration with academic practice around new and emerging approaches to learning and teaching and create a compelling narrative around the value and impact of the Library Service. As the Director of Library Services, I wanted to signal a deliberate intention to firmly position the Library Service as an integral element of the emerg- ing institutional learning ecology and
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to clearly evidence the library’s positive contribution to enhancing the experience and learning outcomes of students as key institutional priorities.
To ensure the relevance and success of the new library learning environment at Ulster, it was essential that the design and layout reflected and flowed from institutional strategies in relation to student learning. A significant degree of shapeshifting was required to deliver an
innovative library learning environment predicated on linking student outcomes to high value institutional priorities, the most obvious priority being to optimise the student experience in the Library Service at Ulster.
Proof of concept
The intervening period between the design and delivery stages of the new campus enabled a period of experimen-
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