Policies, Projects, Planning
THE QUEEN'S LEARNING COMMONS -- WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
Learning Support
- navigating learning resources and services
- developing information literacy skills for finding and evaluating information
- saving research work and projects (e.g. theses, data sets) in the QSpace database
- citing sources
- writing (assignment interpretation, grammar, format, etc.)
- academic success support, coaching and referral
- study skills (time management, note-taking, exam preparation, learning styles, etc.)
- course-specific studying
- learning and using adaptive technology, acquiring educational materials in alternative formats, and using library resources for research
- printing, saving, viewing information
- using software to present information
- connecting online (wireless, QCARD, webproxy, etc.)
- using course software
- troubleshooting personal hardware/software (configuring a laptop, virus protection, security software, etc.)
Group and Individual Study
Students work together in technology-enabled study rooms and at open tables. Study rooms can be booked in advance (using, as of January 2006, an online booking system). The comfortable seating situated throughout the facility encourages conversation as well as contemplation. Individual study spaces are plentiful on the Ground Floor as well as on the quieter upper and lower floors of the Stauffer Library building.
Technology
- 150 computer stations distributed throughout the facility, providing full Web access
- productivity software (e.g. MS Office 2003, Acrobat Professional) at more than 80% of the computer stations; the remaining stations designed for quick Internet access using state-of-the-art Thin Client technology
- laptops available on 3-hour loan
- wireless network as well as fixed data connections for laptops
- printing (black/white and colour) and scanning
- DVD and video viewing
- electronic classroom with 24 wireless-enabled laptops, presenter podium, and built-in audio, video and data projection facilities
Release date: November 2005