Focus of Presentation
Crit Stuart will draw on his extensive experience with the Library West Commons at Georgia Tech to highlight campus relationships required to implement an Information Commons successfully, including collaboration between library staff and information technology programs on campus.  Crit will discuss service models, the endless little details that make for success, and how innovation and creativity can improve user acceptance of new approaches to delivering content and technology support. 

Speaker Bio
Crit Stuart, Associate Director for Public Services at Georgia Tech,  provides leadership, vision and planning to support services and initiatives within the Library’s Public Services departments: Information Services, Circulation, Information Delivery, Architecture Library, Special Formats & Maps, Collection Development and Management, Security and Mailroom. He coordinates the Library and OIT collaboration that is the Library West Commons (LWC); facilitates the expansion of the LWC to the 2nd floor West; and assists with planning for the soon-to-be-built innovative learning resources center, and with the on-going renovation and re-programming of existing Library buildings. He identifies and supports initiatives within the Library, and in collaboration with GT partners, to deliver digital content to the desktop in support of curricula, research, and student retention and success. He also serves as the Subject Librarian for Music. His presentations include: “Building a Cohesive, Focused Team,” at the Georgia Tech Leadership Conference (2003) and “Minding the Generation Gap: Learn How to Communicate and Work Together Across Generations,” at the Association of College and Research Libraries “President’s Program”(2002).