Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 3, 2011
Questions about facilities design abound in discussion groups. Will media centers, as we know them, be built twenty years from now? Will trends of classroom and mobile technology make physical space irrelevant? Continuing and rapid changes in program staffing, program delivery and technology are a given; making it challenging to design a facility to meet [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: October 30, 2010
Inquires about designing media centers are frequent in my email and in discussion groups A recent LM_NET inquiry asked about designing a media center of the future and ensuring viability. I’ve been thinking a lot about the new or remodeled facilities my former district invested heavily in this past decade. Will the “state-of-the-art” media centers [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: June 27, 2010
You can never be too rich, too thin . . . or have too many electrical outlets. Or, so we thought when we planned a new media center. 100 computers, a fantastic view, cozy seating, but not enough electrical outlets in the non-lab areas. Almost 4 years later those little post-it notes saying OUTLET are [...]
