Built to succeed: sustainable learning environment at UC Merced Library
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the sustainable learning environment at UC Merced Library.
Design/methodology/approach
Case study.
Findings
The Library is built to support active and constructive learning through its sustainable design as an open, collaborative, and welcoming learning environment and it has become a sustainable environment that supports sustainable learning for the future.
Originality/value
As the first new research university campus of the twenty-first Century in America, University of California, Merced (UC Merced), from its very beginning, has embraced principles of a green campus from ground up – sustainable economic, social, and environmental systems that preserve the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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Citation
Li, H. (2017), "Built to succeed: sustainable learning environment at UC Merced Library", Library Management, Vol. 38 No. 2/3, pp. 175-180. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-01-2017-0003
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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