The Architecture Library at Ball State University

Ball State University’s Architecture Library is a branch library that supports the students and faculty of the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) as well as the larger university community. The Architecture Library is located on the ground floor of the Architecture Building, which also houses the college’s studios, faculty offices, and facilities. The importance of this location for a student population that spends a great deal of its time “in studio” cannot be overstated

Combining Efforts: A Subject Librarian and a Generalist Team Up for Research Instruction

Academic librarians often work with students in diverse subject areas who make use of a wide range of the library’s resources and services. In order to best serve user needs, it can be important to look for opportunities to work across the units of the library. In keeping with this approach, an Information Services Librarian in the university library and an Architecture Librarian in a branch library joined forces to offer what they thought was a one-time thesis session for graduate students in architecture and planning. It turned out to be the beginning a collaboration that would take them into classrooms in a variety of disciplines to deliver instruction to students at all levels of the curriculum. These two librarians have collaborated on research instruction sessions online for architecture and planning students working on internships and face-to-face sessions in the classroom with art history and art education students working on class projects, including a Spanish class embarking on a research assignment to study the visual culture of Spain. They will take you through their planning process, interactions with faculty members, and how they work to collaborate in a productive way while keeping their own philosophies of research instruction. They will discuss why they choose particular tools and approaches to the session, how they talk about their choices to students, and the importance of sharing more than one approach to research with students. They will also include suggestions for planning and delivering instruction sessions with librarians outside of your area

Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder

Review of Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder , Reviewed July 2015 by Amy Trendler, Architecture Librarian, University Libraries, Ball State University, [email protected]

Rematerial: From Waste to Architecture

Book Review of Rematerial: From Waste to Architecture, by Alejandro Bahamón and Maria Camila Sanjinés. ISBN 9780393733143. Reviewed by Amy Trendler

Paolo Mendes da Rocha: Fifty Years

Book Review of Paolo Mendes da Rocha: Fifty Years / Edited by Rosa Artigas.--ISBN: 978-0-8478-2984-2. Reviewed by Amy Trendler

An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855-1935

Book Review of An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855-1935, by Gladys Montgomery. ISBN 9780926494473. Reviewed by Amy Trendler

Review: Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape

Review of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape by Daniel Kaven. Birkhäuser, February 2022. 456 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-0356-2438-0 (h/c), $69.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Amy Trendler, Architecture Librarian, Ball State University, [email protected]

Concept Mapping + Library Instruction for Design Students

Concept mapping (or mind mapping) as a flexible, creative practice that can be useful for connecting students in design programs with research. There are many applications for information literacy instruction, and concept mapping can also be used to foster creativity in research and to center the researcher and the choices they will make throughout the research process. Examples from concept mapping exercises with students in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning classes are included, along with a literature review on concept mapping in libraries and with design students. Presented as part of the “Imagination in Action: Creativity in the Library and Classroom” session at the ARLIS/NA 2023 annual conference

Imagination in Action Zine

zine handout for session, Imagination in Action: Cultivating Creativity in the Library & Classroom at ARLIS/NA 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico. physical description: 8-pages (printed on 11x17 paper), color