Von Bargen, Jean
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Item Open Access City of Gresham: Program for a New City Hall(University of Oregon, 2009) Holverstott, Brett; von Bargen, Jean E.As a programming class we were charged with developing a comprehensive program for a new Gresham City Hall building. We started initially researching the city of Gresham by examining past articles about the challenges the city has faced during its development. We found out the city has had problems with creating a sense of identity and sustaining a thriving downtown. After visiting the site of the existing city hall it was clear the new city hall needed a stronger community connection and presence and needed to create a new identity for itself. During an interview session with specific departments within city hall, we focused on understanding how the building is used and what each user group’s needs are. For each person, we were interested in themselves as part of a larger department, their department as part of the city hall, and city hall as part of the city of Gresham. We were also interested in how they used to do their job, how things are done currently, and how operations might change in the future. After touring the existing facilities and analyzing what we heard from the interviews through charts and diagrams, we determined the following: Gresham City Hall will serve as an identity for an emerging downtown while promoting community revitalization.Item Open Access SCHOLARS’ BANK YIELDS A GREAT RETURN ON INVESTMENT(2009) von Bargen, Jean E.Institutional repositories are becoming an important point of discussion on many university and college campuses. Academic libraries can be integral to collecting and preserving locally produced work. AASL is proud to offer this faculty perspective on how the library can play an important role in the institutional repository.