A Field Guide to the Information Commons

di Charles Forrest (Autore)

Martin Halbert (Autore)

Scarecrow Press, 2009

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.

• Autore: Charles Forrest, Martin Halbert
• Editore: Scarecrow Press
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 214 p.
• Dimensioni: 256 x 180 mm
• Peso: 456 gr.
• EAN: 9780810861008

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