Proposal for Decker Library Student-Curated Shelves

[devinhalladay]

Here's a loose text-based proposal for this idea:

In order to invite a more diverse and to expansive part of the MICA community to contribute back to the library's space, I propose that a set of shelves in the upper floor of the library be turned into student-curated shelves.

Essentially, it would work like this:

• Signs near the shelves invite students to take books they like or want others to see from the lower level and reshelve them upstairs on the designated shelves.
• Students can then look through these books and check them out as they want.
• After about two weeks, the library staff reshelve the remaining books where they belong downstairs and the cycle starts again.

I propose that these shelves act as replacements for a couple of the new books shelves against the glass wall on the upper level of Decker so that people walking into Bunting see the new feature.

[bjornmeansbear]

@LlyodBraun has a related idea. Maybe just add onto this?

[bjornmeansbear]

If students are empowered to say when they really enjoy a book, or what about a book was meaningful, the librarians can then choose from books that have "notes" or "tags" from the students?