A field guide to the information commons
By: edited by Charles Forrest, Martin Halbert.
Contributors: Forrest, Charles, 1953-; Halbert, Martin.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810861008; 9780810866508
Subjects: Information commons
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.