A Field Guide to the Information Commons

by Forrest, Charles
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ISBN: 9780810861008
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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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Forrest, Charles
  • ISBN: 9780810861008
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.80 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 214
  • Publication Year: 2009

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