The Learning Commons: Collaboration Spaces
Review photographs of the new spaces.
The beautiful furniture and other appointments in the LC are modern, artful, and highly functional pieces. The Herman Miller Resolve System provides students with sleek, airy workspaces and privacy screens, designed to support group work and discussion throughout the space. A number of more traditional study tables are available as well. Other areas of the Commons contain comfortable soft seating--featuring classic Eames and Nelson-designed pieces--and whiteboards that can be moved and reconfigured to suit student needs.
The overall design of the LC focuses on group work. Computers are arranged in clusters. Each computer rests on a table with ample room for groups to gather around a single screen, or tables can accommodate several people seated together with laptops. For larger groups, the LC provides two private group study rooms, where students can meet or share screen displays from their laptops on the wall-mounted LCD screen. In the Presentation Practice Room, small groups and individuals can practice delivering presentations with an overhead LCD projector and whiteboards. The flip of a switch changes the room’s glass wall from clear to opaque for privacy on demand.
Source: Vol. 27, no.3 of the NCSU Libraries Focus (Spring 2007).
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