So what is in a name, after all? The difference between an information and a learning commons is one of aspiration.
Being clear about this is much more than a semantic exercise.
It involves, rather, focusing clearly on the right first questions in space design and committing resolutely to a collaborative effort to design space that is deeply responsive to institutional mission.
These are hard things to do, but aiming at anything less will produce a commons that, while almost surely useful, will likely fall short of what our institutions need and our students deserve.