Afterword – Designing for Laughter: Seven Concepts for Inventing the Future of Academic Communities – pub. 2020

Afterword – Designing for Laughter: Seven Concepts for Inventing the Future of Academic Communities – pub. 2020

Marie S.A. Sorensen’s Afterword to Beyond the Information Commons: A Field Guide to Evolving Library Services, Technologies, and Spaces, 2nd Ed. was published in 2020 by Rowman & Littlefield. Charles Forrest and Martin Halbert are the book’s editors. Citations to this publication are available on 

Digital Discovery and Architectural Interface Design – Journal of Library Administration – pub. 2019

Digital Discovery and Architectural Interface Design – Journal of Library Administration – pub. 2019

Digital Discovery and Architectural Interface Design: Prototyping Architectural-scale Interfaces for Discovery Across Digital and Tangible Collections was published in the Journal of Library Administration, January 22, 2019, and is available on Academia.edu and Researchgate.net. How do researchers search for knowledge? What are their behaviors and habits, 

News – Sorensen Keynotes ACRL/NEC Conference

News – Sorensen Keynotes ACRL/NEC Conference

In shaping the communities of the library, architecture should be guided by the values of quality; nuance; inclusiveness; support for differing learning styles; physical, emotional and social health; and a clear sense of place for the academic disciplines that underpin the university’s curriculum and the library services and their constituencies.