Case Study
Jones Media Center
Jones Media Center Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Located within the Baker Berry Library, the Jones Media Center supports the instruction and research needs of Dartmouth’s faculty, students, and staff in the form of facilities, collections and expertise for researching, viewing and producing a wide range of media. Constructed a decade ago, the current space had become outdated and Media Center staff were eager to deaccession parts of the collection that had low utilization rates in order to open up valuable floor area for new and more flexible uses. Our programming study, which proposed spaces that can change to address new functional needs—such as accommodating a range of teaching and learning styles, workstations that serve pairs of students working collaboratively, large screen