Shared Learning Rooms vs Meeting Rooms

Shared learning rooms

• Free of charge
• Commercial/Business
• Available to any person or group for activities such as study groups, workshops, or meetings.
• Rooms hold between 4-10 people.
• Request from 15 minutes up to a 2-hour block of time
• Rooms can be booked up to 2 weeks and not less than 2 hours in advance
• Individuals can make 1 reservation per day and up to 5 reservations per month (this is not currently enforced)
• Beverages with lids are allowed, food is not allowed
• If the reserving party is more than 15 minutes late, they forfeit the reservation
• A/V technology, often for interviews
• Only at Central Library location but will be in other locations in the future
• Users will try to book all day
• If the reserving party is more than 15 minutes late, they forfeit the reservation
• Rooms cannot be booked for days or times when the library is not open

Meeting rooms

• Free of charge
• Non-commercial/Non profit
• designed to meet informational, educational, cultural and civic needs
• Ideal for discussion groups, panels, lectures
• A/V technology?
• Likely to book the same rooms again (can alternate between two locations if one is unavailable, but likely also because rooms can be limited per location for branches)
• Reservations may be made up to 90 days in advance
• To provide an opportunity for all groups to use the meeting rooms, a group may reserve one meeting room up to 3 times in a rolling 90 day period
• If booking less than 3 days in advance, contact the bracnh directly
• Rooms cannot be booked for days or times when the library is not open (varies by branch)

Other types of rooms:

• Dance studio at African American Heritage Center