Noisy areas
We have a very diverse student body with differing learning styles and preferences. It is important that we provide a diversity of spaces in these new facilities that can accommodate many learning styles. Our planning has been influenced by recent student feedback*, perhaps best typified by the following insightful comment:
"We need...quiet spaces....people work differently; some need quiet, some can work with noise."
The planned 24x7 student computing zone in the Eastern Resource Centre (currently called the ERC Library) and some student lounges in the Tate Learning Centre (currently called the Frank Tate Building) will be designated noisy zones.
These collaboration zones will feature furniture and other equipment that enables group work. These will be high tech zones in which students can work collaboratively on projects. All the latest modern communication devices will be seen in these areas, and their use encouraged: laptops, notebooks, pdas, mobile phones, Blackberrys, iPods - and many more that haven’t been invented of yet!
* Library Vision: Customer Market research – 25 June 2007