Benchmarking Library Creative Spaces for Research Support and Faculty/Librarian Partnerships

Abstract

During the course of this research, the author attempted to locate institutions and background information about spaces that would be similar in scope to a digital scholarship lab (or scholar’s lab) being proposed in a university library. The information is meant to serve as a guide for the space design project, but it will be an important benchmarking tool for existing spaces. A framework is provided as a planning document for other libraries that are considering the development of such a space in an academic library.