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Study Space
Variety: Provides a variety of study spaces, including a quiet study room, individual study carrels, study tables, group study rooms and individual study booths.
Noise Management:
Design of study areas should balance the service needs of customers engaged in study and research with those who increasingly tend to use libraries as social gathering places and for active learning.
Separate study rooms provide spaces that are appropriate for a range of learning styles, from quiet individual study to noisy group learning experiences.
Noise Management:
Design of study areas should balance the service needs of customers engaged in study and research with those who increasingly tend to use libraries as social gathering places and for active learning.
Separate study rooms provide spaces that are appropriate for a range of learning styles, from quiet individual study to noisy group learning experiences.
Teen Area
Creates a space for casual dropin use by teens. Provides a distinct and separate focus area for Teen customers aged 12 to 16 inclusive to socialize, read, study, eat and drink.
Provides the key elements of teen social and educational activity:
· Proximity to Food & Drinks (vending machines)
· Comfortable lounge seating.
· Access to technology that involves and entertains teens.
· Access to popular Teen materials—recreational reading, graphic novels, DVDs, CDs, and teen magazines.
· Provides merchandizing opportunities for teen collection through power wall, endcaps, slatwall etc.
Provides the key elements of teen social and educational activity:
· Proximity to Food & Drinks (vending machines)
· Comfortable lounge seating.
· Access to technology that involves and entertains teens.
· Access to popular Teen materials—recreational reading, graphic novels, DVDs, CDs, and teen magazines.
· Provides merchandizing opportunities for teen collection through power wall, endcaps, slatwall etc.
Community Living Room
Community living room with natural light, views and a fireplace.
Provides setting for social events, author readings, book club meetings, and other special events.
Provides setting for social events, author readings, book club meetings, and other special events.
Children's Area
Welcome: Makes children feel welcome, safe, comfortable, respected and special.
Opportunities to imagine learn grow: Provides opportunities for children to explore ideas, develop skills and to learn in a fun, enriching environment, where noisy activity is expected and encouraged.
Merchandizing the Children’s Collection: Provides opportunities to merchandize the children’s collection through face-out “retail” display techniques.
Early Years Area:
Provides space for interactive early literacy designed for children 0-5 and their caregivers.
· Design is based on Early Years principles (as developed by Dr. Fraser Mustard and M. Norrie McCain)—brain development in the first three years of life predicts how a child will do academically in later life.
· Designed to support early language literacy development and sensory exploration among children.
· Helps caregivers ensure their young children enter school ready to learn by exposing them to reading and sensory stimulation at the earliest age possible through books, CDs, videos and developmental toys.
School-Age Area:
Provides a Range of Learning Environments: A place that offers a variety of environments for school-age children, from a lively area for group interaction with technology, to quiet, cozy, contemplative spaces (e.g. window seats) for quiet reading.
Collections Arranged by Category – with special destination spaces for subject categories (C3): A Land Before Time; Ancient and Medieval Times; Animals; The Arts; Business and Money Matters; Character Matters!; Computers; Facts & Trivia; Home, Family & Daily Life; How It Works; Magazines;
Lands and People; Languages and Learning; Legends and Fairy Tales; Literature; Mind and Body; People at Work; Religion; Science and Nature; Social Studies; Space: The Final Frontier; Sports, Games & Other Fun Stuff
Stranger than Fiction; What a Life! (Dinosaurs, Animals, Fairy Tales)
Study Space for School-Age Children: Provide a variety of study spaces, including areas for group study, individual study and quiet study.
Opportunities to imagine learn grow: Provides opportunities for children to explore ideas, develop skills and to learn in a fun, enriching environment, where noisy activity is expected and encouraged.
Merchandizing the Children’s Collection: Provides opportunities to merchandize the children’s collection through face-out “retail” display techniques.
Early Years Area:
Provides space for interactive early literacy designed for children 0-5 and their caregivers.
· Design is based on Early Years principles (as developed by Dr. Fraser Mustard and M. Norrie McCain)—brain development in the first three years of life predicts how a child will do academically in later life.
· Designed to support early language literacy development and sensory exploration among children.
· Helps caregivers ensure their young children enter school ready to learn by exposing them to reading and sensory stimulation at the earliest age possible through books, CDs, videos and developmental toys.
School-Age Area:
Provides a Range of Learning Environments: A place that offers a variety of environments for school-age children, from a lively area for group interaction with technology, to quiet, cozy, contemplative spaces (e.g. window seats) for quiet reading.
Collections Arranged by Category – with special destination spaces for subject categories (C3): A Land Before Time; Ancient and Medieval Times; Animals; The Arts; Business and Money Matters; Character Matters!; Computers; Facts & Trivia; Home, Family & Daily Life; How It Works; Magazines;
Lands and People; Languages and Learning; Legends and Fairy Tales; Literature; Mind and Body; People at Work; Religion; Science and Nature; Social Studies; Space: The Final Frontier; Sports, Games & Other Fun Stuff
Stranger than Fiction; What a Life! (Dinosaurs, Animals, Fairy Tales)
Study Space for School-Age Children: Provide a variety of study spaces, including areas for group study, individual study and quiet study.
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