The Virtual School Library Project The Ideal Library
Join us at this site as we share ideas and explore what it takes to create the IDEAL school library facility from the walls up. Whether you are starting a new library or just looking for creative ways to make an old library more loved and appreciated, this is the cave where you can visit, think, share and design a better book trap.
The exciting part of this project is the ideas you share will be posted on this site so that other book-dwelling librarians can use them to help design their IDEAL library.
The model for our evolving IDEAL facility is a Library Information Center built, shared and maintained by the community. If you are visiting here, you are part of our community and you are encouraged to share your ideas on what makes for an effective, curriculum- centered, campus library.
Reevaluating a school library facility gives everyone in the community an opportunity to think about what belongs in the "architectural box". When designing from scratch or renovating the old it is best to imagine an empty room. Then, invite your community of students, teachers, and parents to decide on the most critical services. Find an artist AND an architect to help map out the empty space. Finally, culturally speaking, be it a cave, hut, home, library, Media Center, or Information Resource Center, it doesn't become community property until the first dinner is served or the victorious hunt is painted on the wall. In other words, what is finally created in the "architectural box" will be an ideal, successful, open door library if everyone is able to celebrate when it opens.
Students, teachers, parents, or librarians looking for change - join us at this site, as we create together the community-based high school library. Share your ideas, react to the controversy, but get involved and add your hand print to our virtual library wall.
Feel free to click on "E-mail Comments and IDEAS" to contribute your own blueprint IDEAS or feedback. last modified: March29,2006
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