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The Learning Resource Center at Windward Community College PROJECT DEVELOPMENT REPORT the university. The new Learning Resource Center facility should be viewed as the most important, interesting, and popular building on campus. Even in a difficult economic period, library facility improvements and expansions appear to be at an all-time high, with many universities viewing their new and expanded libraries as signature campus buildings, critical to attracting and retaining excellent students and faculty. C. Project Success Criteria/Goals The vision for the new Learning Resource Center is to recognize the role of Library as Central Place on the Windward Community College campus. The Learning Resource Center building serves as a home for a community of learners and their materials, a refuge for commuting students, and a collaborative and scholarly environment for faculty, staff, students and members of the greater community. As a guide to the planning team the following goals/criteria were developed: 1. Planning a. Create a memorable sense of place that welcomes users b. Enhance the library’s presence on campus, marking these newly combined Learning Resource Center functions with a distinguished “landmark” architectural image c. Creatively combine, under one roof, the five currently separated departments within open floor plans with visual clarity to the services provided, allowing users to navigate independently d. Arrange the collections in a climate-controlled, environmentally and physically secure, accessible, and space-efficient manner e. Increase the needed future collection growth space and reader seating programmed requirements within a flexible and rearrangeable environment f. Locate service points and departments in a readily understandable and functional pattern g. Provide barrier-free access, both inside and outside the building h. Incorporate principles of "green" architecture to create a healthy and forward-looking facility, while ensuring an appropriate. environment for the preservation of books and other materials by addressing issues of energy efficiency, recycled and replenishable resources, and flexible design i. Strive to achieve LEED® “Silver Certification” based on the U.S. Green Buildings Council criteria. j. Invite the College faculty to become a more accommodating presence in the library proper k. Encourage natural daylight and views to the surrounding natural beauty at every opportunity University of Hawaii Community Colleges April 2004 Project No. CC-02-6188 III-3
The Learning Resource Center at Windward Community College PROJECT DEVELOPMENT REPORT l. Retain and emphasize the natural beauty of the Windward campus site, paying special attention to the rural and pastoral ambiance unique to the campus m. Design the new building to “feel at home” in the campus context of arches, tile roofs, shaded lanais, and landscape. 2. Technology a. Provide an Information Commons uniting technology, reference services, research assistance, instructional media, and The Learning Center assistance to create a collaborative learning environment – a campus living room b. Provide locations for technology-rich information services for students, faculty, and staff 3. Library Environments a. Create collaborative work environments for both students and staff b. Improve staff work environments c. Create a variety of study environments d. Provide comfortable meeting and gathering spaces, within an “architecture of interaction” e. Create large and small group study rooms f. Create high-technology zones throughout the building, with power and data access convenient to all reader stations g. Provide quiet zones h. Provide a coffee shop cafe and outside covered lanai/patio i. Be a welcome center to the campus j. Have a strong exterior visual identity, with the library as landmark D. Facilities Program – Summary Of Spatial Requirements The Learning Resource Center (LRC) is envisioned as the center of scholarship and learning as well as the information and technology center of Windward Community College. It seeks to provide an environment conducive to the advancement of learning by providing access to comprehensive learning resources, instructional services, computers, multimedia and high speed connections, facilitating the integration of new technologies into teaching and learning, and providing appropriate technological support to the campus. The Learning Resource Center provides a collection of print, non-print and electronic resources; maximum access to these resources regardless of location or format; information and multimedia hardware and software for the general student use and advanced faculty and student productions; and instruction and assistance in the use of the various resources and technologies. University of Hawaii Community Colleges April 2004 Project No. CC-02-6188 III-4
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