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Black Hawk College Library redesigned its reading and circulation desk areas by trading their spaces. The suggestion for the redesign was made by a LIS graduate student from UW-Madison who was completing her required practicum hours at BHC in fall term 2006. During a library staff visioning exercise, she sketched a radically different entrance that had circulation where the s the circulation desk was located and put the reading area where students had been reading. In December 2008, the two areas were flipped and the transformation has been stunning. We didn't purchase any new furnishings, utilized cast offs from other departments, and created an immensely popular area for students and staff to congregate.