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University of Southern California
Leavey Library
Los Angeles, CA
Library Home:
http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/undergrad/leavey/index.html
Information Commons:
http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/undergrad/leavey/IC.html
Floor Plans:
 
Images:
http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/undergrad/leavey/Photo-gallery.html
Planning Documents:
 
Hardware/Software/Infrastructure:
http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/undergrad/leavey/IC.html#compfac
Contact:
Charlotte Crockett crockett@usc.edu
Director, Leavey Library
(213) 740-2348
   
   
   
Notes: Leavey Library celebrated its tenth anniversary in September, 2004 with "a weeklong slate of activities, with opportunities for friends and donors, faculty and students, and the general public to participate in the festivities." One of the days was devoted to a "an advanced discussion among information commons professionals exchanging lessons learned, best practices, and models of operation." Information Commons: Learning Space Beyond the Classroom has links to all the presenters' .ppt or .pdf files.
Related sites and publications:

Anderson, Melissa. "Peer Information Assistants in Leavey Library's Information Commons." presented at 1996 California Academic &Research Libraries (CARL) Conference Breakout Session II:"Leading Students Down the Road Less Traveled:Diverse Paths Toward Information Competence," October 25, 1996.
Available at: http://www.carl-acrl.org/Archive/ConferencesArchive/Conference96/melissa.html

Afifi, Marianne. "The Leavey Library at USC: Planning for bibliographic Instruction in a High Tech Environment." Catholic Library World, Vol. 65 (Jan/Feb/Mar, 1995), Pg. 19-20.

Commings, Karen. "Libraries of the future…inside the University Southern California’s ‘Cybrary’." Computers in Libraries, Vol. 14 (Nov./Dec., 1994), Pg. 18-19.

Helfer, Doris Small. "The Leavey Library: A Library in Your Future?" Searcher, Vol. 5 (January 1997), Pg. 38-40.

© 2001 David Murray