High Impact School Library Spaces: Envisioning New School Library Concepts

To keep school libraries relevant, their physical spaces need to be reinvented to mirror 21st-century learning models. This book will enable everyone from school librarians and principals to district-level administrators, architects, and interior planners of school library spaces to reconceptualize school libraries.

• Describes space concepts to support personalized learning and guided inquiry

• Addresses the key subject of how to best adapt the library for technology, virtual learners, and patrons seeking to use smart devices

• Spotlights the new concepts and learning applications that are necessary to make school libraries more effective, especially at the middle and high school levels

• Examines how to merchandise a new library brand and promote revised roles for school librarians to reverse the trend of marginalization of school libraries