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Field Guide to the Information Commons

Field Guide to the Information Commons

Forrest, Charles
Halbert, Martin

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ISBN10: 0810861003
ISBN13: 9780810861008
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: Feb 19 2009
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English

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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