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Howard Raskin, 5-7960, hbr1@cornell.edu.

The client team is Howard Raskin, the librarian coordinating the Mann Library building; Jesse Koennecke, the Access Services librarian (with expertise on the library online system); and Nick Cappadona, the lead programmer for the Mann Library Web site.

Smart Map: Interactive building directory for the Mann Library

Mann Library would like a Web accessible interactive building directory for the full Mann Library, opening fall semester 2007.

The Library currently occupies an Addition while the original Mann library building is being renovated. This spring the temporary walls between the two spaces will be demolished and the library will expand into the renovated space over the summer. The full library will be state-of-the-art and is intended to serve as the academic community center for the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Human Ecology.

The functions to be implemented will be determined by the project team and the clients working jointly. Here are some possibilities:

• Overall building map (built on CAD drawings) with labels and links to individual Mann Library Web sites (like the classroom schedule, or upcoming events.)
• Conventional building directory functions: staff directory and office location. “Are they in?”, integrating information from the Oracle calendar.
• Information about the group and individual study rooms. Mann Library currently displays status of the ‘circulating’ rooms in the Addition on the Web site, as below.
  
  The full building will have more of these types of spaces. The proposed map would give the status of each space (occupied, reserved, available.)
• Stacks maps showing individual call number location, linked from a catalog search (or keying in a call number) – show where in our stacks the book is
• Search on various criteria (type of study space, view of trees or atrium, technologies, donor) with a spatial display of the results.

Examples of interactive building directories can be found at: http://www.greentouchscreen.com/pages/newsletter/index.html. Here is one example.

See also: www.livingchildren.com/portfolio_1.htm. The following is taken from that site.

Extensibility

Modules developed for Mann Library (the stacks maps and other modules that used the library databases) would be of interest to other libraries. The Project Manager for the Life Science building has expressed an interest in smart building maps. Cornell’s Planning, Design, and Construction Department might also be interested in the results of the project.