Title: Association of Architecture School Librarians AASL 28th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 330412006
1Association of Architecture School Librarians
(AASL) 28th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City,
3/30-4/1/2006
- (or, Spencers and Pats excellent adventure as
Paula Wolfes representatives)
2SLC Hilton our home away from home
3Our home room
4View from our window
5Another window, further up
6Hiltons Trofi dining room, our first meeting
with the librarians.
7The Granite Room, central meeting room for the
AASL conference.
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9Familiar faces begin to emerge
10John Schlinke of Roger Williams U. (RI),
conference organizer, with Michael Mothu of ACSA
11The Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture (ACSA) Conference is always held
concurrently with the AASL meeting
- 550 to join the ACSA
- 150 to attend the conference
- Relations are strained between ACSA and AASL the
former demands substantial funds to make
conferences self-supporting the latter regards
policies as penny wise, pound foolish - Ignacio San Martin, Laura Hollengreen, and Jason
Vollen were UA presenters at the ACSA conference. - Conference theme was Getting Real Design Ethos
Now - Keynote speaker Shigeru Ban of Tokyo, Japan
12My first foray into the password-protected
portion of the ACSA web page
13Our second presentation Jane McMaster of OSU on
the new Knowlton Architecture library space
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15The Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State
University
16Another view of the school
17Interior Space library is on the top two floors.
18As can be seen here, the library is surrounded by
glass.
19Library floor plan much longer and skinnier than
they would have liked.
20Library interior Special Collections and
glass-covered stacks are on the top floor.
21Roof garden adjacent to the library top floor a
theme that will repeat itself during our tour of
the SLC Public Library.
22The library is famous for its collection of
designer furniture.
23On our way to our first tour look both ways
before crossing intersections!
24If not at an intersection, use these flags to
keep motorists from killing you.
25Artspaces Pierpont warehouse renovation
26Artspace
- Artspace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit community
development organization founded in 1980 and
working to revitalize neighborhoods by creating
mixed-use projects that incorporate affordable
housing, cultural amenities, and commercial
spaces. - Artspace projects are catalysts for revitalizing
the neighborhood and spurring further
development. Artspace projects contribute to the
arts and culture of the community by providing
affordable artist studios and galleries. The
projects also create synergy between the artists,
nonprofit agencies and residents living and
working in Salt Lake City.
27The Art Access Gallery in the Artspace Pierpont
complex
28Exhibit seen Quinn Jacobsons wet-plate
collodion photography. The process was
abandoned, and, in a lot of ways, I feel that the
people who I photograph are abandoned as well.
29The tour continues to an old warehouse renovation
where railroad cars used to park inside.
30Skylights have been cut in the railroad car space.
31Soon the space will be ready for occupancy.
32The professionals (and two paraprofessionals)
gather for a group photo by another Artspace
apartment renovation.
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34After dinner, another tour commences to the
massive LDS conference center of some 21,000
seats.
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36Part of the tour includes a rehearsal of the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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39We were there!
40Day 2 The State of Instruction in Architecture
School Libraries, Jeanne Brown of UNLV
41The State of Instruction in Architecture
- Handouts from Jeanne Browns lecture
- UNLV Survey
- Background and discussion topics
- Research Log Project
- Rationale for a research log
- Goals of research in the academic setting
- Categories of the log
- Information needed or topic being researched
- Date of searching activity
- Tool or source used to find/research
- Type of search conducted and search terms used
- Results (and explanation if relevant) along with
appropriate citations - Evaluation of the findings or of the search
process - Tips in developing the research and information
log - Criteria upon which the log will be evaluated
- Sample research log
- Information competencies for architecture
students - Core competencies for students in all design
disciplinesbasic skills (just the first 2 yrs.)
42The State of Instruction in Architecture (cont.)
- UNLV Survey sent to the AASL list 3/6/2006
indicators - Involvement with Information Literacy
- of 21 responses only six have instruction on
information literacy - Number of libraries with online tutorials only
four provided URLs, and those are guides for the
most part - http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/Guides.html
- http//www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/guides.html
- http//www.library.gatech.edu/architect/tutorial.h
tml - http//www.library.unlv.edu/arch/instr/
- Level of student most consistently involved in
library instruction - First year
- Graduate
43The State of Instruction in Architecture (cont.)
- Sample web tutorial/guide from UNLV
44Relevance to UA Library MAT staff
- Architecture libraries with front-end reference
staff handle undergraduate-level questions and
pass along graduate-level questions to the
librarian - Current training of MAT staff at Fine Arts seems
to be only a little beyond the freshman level for
architecture
45Collection Development Roundtable, hosted
byBarbara Opar, Syracuse University
46Collection Development Topics
- Collection in general
- New directions, new areas being researched
- Areas in which interest has lagged
- Formats
- New online tools/subscriptions, incl. Material
ConneXion, image collections - Materials labs
- Collection Management
- Deselectionwhat
- Multiple copies collected/retained
- Established practices for ref. works, esp.
technical sources - Old editions of ref. tools whats kept (e.g. old
building codes) - Redundancy of formats, e.g. JSTOR journals
47Collection Development Topics (cont.)
- Assessment
- OCLC collections analysis
- Projects
- Digitizinglocal collections, slidesany
experience? - Funding
- Has the budget gone up, down, or remained stable?
- How much has inflation impacted
- Approval plansvendorsadvantages/disadvantages
- Policies
- Circulation, incl. journals (esp. pre-1930 vols.)
- Retention of student theses/dissertations
- Marketing
- Databases, image collections
48Architecture Libraries and Schools of
Architecture Real Collaboration for Student
Success (free afternoon redux of the morning
AASL/ACSA joint session)
- Librarian Shannon Van Kirk (now of California
Polytechnic State U. was at Miami) and Architect
Ben Jacks (Miami University) discuss their
literacy project collaboration
49Shannon Van Kirk and Ben Jacks
- Information Literacy is now a job description,
using ACRL information literacy competency
standards - Definition of Information Literacy
- The set of skills and experiences that enable
life-long learning - Information Literacy, especially the art of
polemic writing, seems to be the weakest area of
an architecture students training - Twelve week course
- Week 1 Framing Topic
- Week 2 Epistemology
- Week 3 Previous Research
- Week 4-5 Research Methodologies, Thesis Writing
- Week 6-7 Narrative Literature Review
- Week 8 Thesis Draft due
- Week 9-11 Practice Presentation
- Week 12 Thesis Development
- Peer Review Technique read to peers who evaluate
- Transition to scholar experience research
scholarship
50Heather Ball of Virginia Tech development of a
web-accessible research packet for the
study-abroad program at CESA (Center for European
Studies in Architecture)
51VT Study-abroad packet, cont. Sample page using
Luna Insight
52VT Study-abroad packet, cont.
- A packet for the study-abroad program is prepared
ahead of the architecture students trip - Packets include images, plans, journals and
monographs from a variety of sites pertaining to
the area visited. Each image is fully cited. - Students can access from the VT webpage via a
secure login from anywhere in the world
53Tara Carlisle of UT Austin describes the
Materials Resource Center at the University of
Texas
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55Materials Resource Center at UT Austin (cont.)
- Over 20,000 material samples
- Each material is barcoded and cataloged using LC
classification for materials - Probably the most comprehensive materials
collection in the country - Materials not available for ILL (not even to the
Materials Access Team)! - Publicly-accessible web catalog at
- http//web.austin.utexas.edu/Matlab
56Materials Resource Center at UT Austin (cont.)
57Janine Henri of UT Austin (who seems to know
everything about everybody) discusses the
commercial database, Material ConneXion
58Material ConneXion (cont.)
- Available via individual subscription (150/yr.)
or at an institutional rate (for UA, about
4.5K/yr.) - Two-week free trial
- Recommended to Paula Wolfe, who will explore
joint funding from Architecture and Engineering
departments
59Tour of the Salt Lake City Public Library
60Shadowy librarians gather for the tour
61SLC Public Library Fun Facts
- Designed by world-renown Israeli architect Moshe
Safdie - Incorporates many Middle-Eastern themes
- Does not use AC, but a form of evaporative
cooling during the summer, and a clerestory
collector above the childrens reading room for
partial solar heating during the winter
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68The Clerestory above the Childrens Collection
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72Sunshade detail in Childrens Collection
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74Child study nook based on Superman fortress
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78Ascending.
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81Skylight based on the Eye of Osiris Up on the
rooftop for the librarians.
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87Cat- Walk On The Way Down
88Spencers expensive steak house in SLC
Hilton.Pats Hamburger stand near Grande and
Speedway, Tucson
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