ACU LIBRARY

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B Level – Ground floor

• Circulation• Reference• Information Commons• Library Staff• Toilets

As soon as you walk in the door, it’s evident that the library occupies three floors. As a multi-faculty library, there are different collections on the upper and lower floors. The upper floor also has meeting rooms and work spaces. The ground floor is service orientated.

Service orientated

Values

Religious icon on the wall

Indigenous flags prominently displayed so they are visible from without and within

Food and beverages allowed

Modern and spacious

Open, light and welcoming

Art works displayed in stairwells and on available wall panels throughout the library

• New resources featured beside the stairwell and magazines and reference are in in the far right lower corner• Most of the major collections reside on the floors above and below• In view of staff/circulation area for enquiry/guidance/mentoring

Level B Activity/Function Cluster Diagram

Staff workroom

Leisure seatingCirculations desk

INFORMATION COMMONS

Computer workstations

Copy &

Print

Magazines

Stairwell and lift to upstairs and downstairs collections

Enquiry Terminals

Leisure seating

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Used infrequently

Used infrequently

Used frequently

Used frequently

Services are close to the entrance. The circulation desk is on the left as you enter and the enquiries counter is on the right.

Circulation desk

Enquiry terminals

B Level – Ground floor

View to your right as you enter• Subdued carpet colours and clinical white walls• Projected display on the far wall.• Large window sections.

Quick print terminals

Reference

Scanning terminalCopiers & printers

B Level – Services

1. Entrance

2. Curved circulation desk

3. Enquiries desk

4. Enquiry terminals

5. Quick print terminals

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B Level – Services

Encouraging independence

This area is for self-serve scanning, copying and printing.

Quick Print’

Recreational seating

Newspapers and magazines

Comfortable seatingMostly pastel coloured furnishings

New Books Display

Recreational seating

Use of natural light and warmth

Large panels of glass window

Chairs easy to move for regrouping

Information commons terminals• Interesting zigzag formation of partitions

Information commons

ReferenceMagazines New BooksDisplay

EnquiriesQuick Print

Information Commons

• Large bank of computer terminals for student use• Curved desks with room for study books and/or sharing terminals• Projected information display on the far wall• Natural and artificial light• Quite noisy

Large windows for natural light feature thin dark horizontal non-adjustable louvers (barely visible in the photos) to break up the glare

Information Commons

Staff workroom

Spacious work area with adjoining officesGlass panels for viewing main library areas

New resources display

Limited amount of comfortable leisure seating in dark tones.

Information boards

Information boards

Level A – Lower Floor

• Level A (Lower Floor)• General Collection• St Paul’s Collection• Photocopying Room • Quiet Study Carrels

Level A Activity/Function Cluster Diagram

Stairwell and lift

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General collection

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Returns shelving & staff work desk

Level A – Lower Floor

Main collection

St Pauls collection Dewey Decimal System

Lower floor study carrels and enquiry

terminals

Open stairwells

Level C – Upper Floor

• CC Collection• Aquinas Collection• Periodicals• Study carrels (with

laptop outlets)• Study rooms• Information

commons room

Level C – Collections

StairwellLift

Meeting room

Meeting room

Computer lab Viewing

room with couches

Meeting room

Meeting room

Teaching resources for Ed students

Recreational seating Quiet study area

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Enquiry terminals

• CC Collection• Aquinas Collection• Periodicals

Level C Curriculum Collection

Alternate storage and display for awkward objects.

Level C - Formal collaboration areas

Level C Informal collaboration areas

Viewing lounge

Movable comfortable chairs near data

points and resources

Level C Information commons

Computer lab and seminar room

Level C Enquiry

terminals and quiet

work areas

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