TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose Library spaces are being reimagined to better fit the needs of today’s and future users. At the Georgia Tech Library, a new library space, currently called the “Library Store,” is being developed as part of the “Library Next” initiative. How can this space best attract users and how can it work to intuit their needs to offer more seamless services? Careful planning and dedicated participation on the part of library management and library staff have set into motion a design for a new space that will meet user needs immediately and will be flexible enough to respond to their ever-changing use patterns.Methodology/approach This chapter explores the relationship between staff needs, user needs, and institutional needs when tasked with creating a library space and services in the 21st century academic library. It explores the development of the “Library Store” as a case study to shed light on the ways in which academic libraries can adapt to the research and learning needs of their users.Findings The authors provide insight into the complexities of leveraging existing staff skills in order to offer new user services in a space that boasts a new and updated design. They also detail the lessons learned from the initial planning stages of the new space and services.Originality/value This chapter considers user and library staff needs from a management perspective when planning a redesign of space and services. This library is one of only a few that has embarked on this specific model of space and service reimagining.
VL  - 36
SN  - 978-1-78635-270-5, 978-1-78635-269-9/0732-0671
DO  - 10.1108/S0732-067120160000036013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0732-067120160000036013
AU  - Decker Emy N.
AU  - Henson Bruce
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - The Library Store: A New Place and Space within the Georgia Tech Library
T2  - The Future of Library Space
T3  - Advances in Library Administration and Organization
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 285
EP  - 306
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -