Whilst attending one of the many library management meetings at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT), a proposal for the creation of a learning commons (LCs) was made. The researcher understood from that discussion that LCs creation was being hinted on by the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC). It was from this discussion and from coming across a number of contemporary library literature which seems to be about LCs and information commons that the researcher felt that although there may be some other solutions to the lack of collaboration space in Zimbabwe, LCs could be one of them.