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A Field Guide to the Information Commons
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2009
Summary
Our sources of information, and the practices we use to find it, are in a period of rapid flux. Libraries must respond by selecting, acquiring, and making accessible a host of new information resources, developing innovative services, and building different types of spaces to support changing user behaviors and patterns of learning. A Field Guide to the Information Commons describes an emerging library service model that embodies all three spheres of response: new information resources, collaborative service programs, and redesigned staff and user spaces.
Technology has enabled new forms of information-seeking behavior and scholarship, causing a renovation of libraries that revisits the idea of the "commons"—a public place that is free to be used by everyone. A Field Guide to the Information Commons describes the emergence, growth, and adoption of the concept of the information commons in libraries. This book includes a variety of contributed articles, and descriptive, structured entries for various information commons in libraries across the country and around the world.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-6100-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-6650-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
198
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Contents No access
Information Commons: A Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. Origin and Development of the Information Commons in Academic Libraries No access
Chapter 02. Information Commons: Surveying the Landscape No access
Chapter 03. Breaking Down Barriers to Working and Learning: Challenges and Issues in Designing an Information Commons No access
Chapter 04. Technology in the Information Commons No access
Chapter 05. Case Study in Customizing Information Commons Environments: Hardin Library No access
Field Guide No access
Afterword: “Getting It Right” No access Pages 179 - 182
Appendix A: Field Guide Entry Survey Form No access Pages 183 - 188
Appendix B: Time Line of Information Commons Developments No access Pages 189 - 190
Index No access Pages 191 - 194
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 195 - 198
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