Willie Miller

Methodology for Evaluating Library Space

Willie Miller is responsible for coordinating cohesive and targeted public and internal facing messaging and outreach plans in connection with all units and individuals already participating in this work. He leads the library's Campus Outreach Group, which creates library programming aimed at students, and Willie is the library's go-to person for campus communication initiatives.

He is also responsible for overseeing the library’s 3D/VR Initiative, digitization, digital user experience, client support, and operations teams. Together with the leaders of these groups, Willie bolsters cohesiveness among the library's prolific technology experts and ensures that these groups work together to effectively support the teaching, learning and research goals of University Library.

In 2017, a mixed-method assessment program was implemented before a major renovation project for IUPUI University Library. A significant portion of space occupied by book stacks was to be converted to informal learning and study spaces for students. Willie and a colleague named Paul Moffett, sought to gather student input to determine their preferences for environmental features before renovation began.

Willie Miller's translation of an assessment program that has since been used by other librarians across the country to similarly transform their library spaces and repurpose existing space for informal learning or other mixed-use purposes is another example of how IUPUI's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.