Keywords
School Library; Education Library; Academic libraries; Cape Peninsula University of Technology; Library spaces
Description
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology has two different campuses on which teacher training takes place – the Mowbray campus with around 2500 education students and the Wellington campus with its 2000 education students. Both campuses were originally designed and built as Colleges of education but were incorporated into the Cape Technikon in 2001 and CPUT in 2005. The libraries were designed to cater for both academic and teaching needs, with many different collections. However these have changed dramatically in nature and use in the last ten years. It was decided to remodel both libraries and incorporate a specialised area containing the material as would be found in school libraries. This paper outlines the history of the changes due to merger and negotiations with architects and builders, temporary premises and the process of finalising the move into the new spaces. In particular, attention is paid to the education students, and how their dualistic academic and practical education needs place a special burden on libraries, and how the design, content and collections of these newly revamped libraries are designed to try and address these.
The future of our children – providing library spaces for future educators at The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology has two different campuses on which teacher training takes place – the Mowbray campus with around 2500 education students and the Wellington campus with its 2000 education students. Both campuses were originally designed and built as Colleges of education but were incorporated into the Cape Technikon in 2001 and CPUT in 2005. The libraries were designed to cater for both academic and teaching needs, with many different collections. However these have changed dramatically in nature and use in the last ten years. It was decided to remodel both libraries and incorporate a specialised area containing the material as would be found in school libraries. This paper outlines the history of the changes due to merger and negotiations with architects and builders, temporary premises and the process of finalising the move into the new spaces. In particular, attention is paid to the education students, and how their dualistic academic and practical education needs place a special burden on libraries, and how the design, content and collections of these newly revamped libraries are designed to try and address these.