4 Tips To Transform Your Learning Space is another article for the Library Learning Commons file that you might want to compile.  Holland breaks down the transformation from the traditional school library to learning commons with 4 general tips that are easy to remember:

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1. Create an agile space

2. Design an inviting space.

3. Build a maker space

4. Create a community

 

There are very handy links in the article, one of which is a presentation on McGyver Librarianship: The Art of Doing More With Less.  This is a webinar for which you can quickly download a software called Blackboard Collaboration right at that site. The webinar provides many low cost solutions to overcoming obstacles in making a school library a more inviting space and one which allows for collaboration and invention.