Full Description
In the closing decades of the twentieth century, academic libraries responded to rapid changes in their environment by acquiring and making accessible a host of new information resources, developing innovative new services and collaborative partnerships, and building new kinds of technology-equipped spaces to support changing user behaviors and emerging patterns of learning. The "Information Commons" or "InfoCommons" blossomed in a relatively short amount of time in libraries across North America, and around the world, particularly in Europe and the British Commonwealth.
This book is more than a second edition of the 2009 book A Field Guide to the Information Commons which documented the emergence of a range of facilities and service programs that called themselves "Information Commons." This new book updates this review of current practice in the Information Commons and other new kinds of facilities inspired by the same needs and intents, but goes beyond that by describing the continued evolution. This new book is an attempt to answer the question: "What might be the next emerging concept for a technology-enabled, user-responsive, mission-driven form of the academic library?"
Like its predecessor, Beyond the Information Commons is structured in two parts. First, a brief series of essays explore the Information Commons from historical, organizational, technological, and architectural perspectives. The second part is a field guide composed of more than two dozen representative entries describing various Information Commons using a consistent format that provides both perspective on issues and useful details about actual implementations. Each of these includes photos and other graphics.
Contents
Foreword
Susan K. Nutter
Acknowledgements
Charles G. Forrest and Martin D. Halbert
Introduction
Charles G. Forrest and Martin D. Halbert
Part I: The Information Commons
1. Origin and evolution of the commons in academic libraries
Liz Milewicz
2. Surveying the landscape
Joan Lippincott
3. 21st century library service design
Elliot Felix and Matthew Swift
4. Integrating technology into the Information Commons
Parke Rhoads
5. Designing flexible spaces
Summer Cook and Betsy Maddox
6. Tying it all together
Kelly Brubaker
Part II: Field Guide Entries
Introduction to the Field Guide Entries
Kristi Burns
Field Guide Entries
Claremont Colleges Library (CA)
Collaborative Commons
Dartmouth College (NH)
Jones Media Center
Duke University (NC)
The Ruppert Commons for Research, Technology and Collaboration (The Edge)
Emory University (GA)
Learning Commons, Student Digital Life
Indiana University (IN)
Learning Commons
Jackson State University (MS)
JSU Innovate
Kansas State University (KS)
K-State InfoCommons
North Carolina State University (NC)
Lake Raleigh Learning Commons
Ohio University (OH)
Learning Commons
Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Knowledge Commons
Simon Fraser University (BC, Canada)
Student Learning Commons
Texas Christian University (TX)
Information Commons
Trinity University (TX)
Info Commons
University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Knowledge Commons, Research Commons, & Learning Commons
University of Central Florida (FL)
Knowledge Commons
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Scholarly Commons
University of Iowa (IA)
Learning Commons
University of Maryland (MD)
Terrapin Learning Commons
University of Minnesota Twin Cities (MN)
SMART Learning Commons
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (NC)
Digital Media Commons
University of North Texas (TX)
Collaboration & Learning Commons
University of North Texas (TX)
The Factory
University of Oklahoma (OK)
Helmerich Collaborative Learning Center
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (TN)
Studio
University of Texas (TX)
PCL Learning Commons
Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
Collaboration Room
Virginia Tech University (VA)
Learning Commons
Afterword
Marie S. A. Sorensen
Appendix A: Field Guide Entry Survey Form
Appendix B: Timeline of Information Commons Development
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
