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A Field Guide to the Information Commons
Contributor(s): Forrest, Charles (Author), Halbert, Martin (Author)

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 ISBN: 0810861003     ISBN-13: 9780810861008
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
OUR PRICE: $103.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2009
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Annotation: A Field Guide to the Information Commons describes the emergence of the concept of the information commons in libraries and its rapid spread and adoption, and includes a variety of contributed articles and descriptive, structured entries for various information commons in libraries.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - General
Dewey: 025.523
LCCN: 2008039244
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" L (1.00 lbs) 214 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2009 pg. 119
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 296
 
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Publisher 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.
 
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