A field guide to the information commons

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 b...

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Other Authors: Forrest, Charles, 1953-, Halbert, Martin.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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505 0 # |a Information Commons: A Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Information Commons; Chapter 01. Origin and Development of the Information Commons in Academic Libraries; Chapter 02. Information Commons: Surveying the Landscape; Chapter 03. Breaking Down Barriers to Working and Learning: Challenges and Issues in Designing an Information Commons; Chapter 04. Technology in the Information Commons; Chapter 05. Case Study in Customizing Information Commons Environments: Hardin Library; Part II. The Field Guide; Field Guide; Afterword: "Getting It Right." 
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