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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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• Foreword(p. v)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. xi)
• Part I The Information Commons
• 1 Origin and Development of the Information Commons in Academic Libraries(p. 3)
• 2 Information Commons: Surveying the Landscape(p. 18)
• 3 Breaking Down Barriers to Working and Learning: Challenges and Issues in Designing an Information Commons(p. 32)
• 4 Technology in the Information Commons(p. 41)
• 5 Case Study in Customizing Information Commons Environments: Hardin Library(p. 50)
• Part II The Field Guide
• Introduction to the Field Guide Entries(p. 67)
• Field Guide Entries:
• Brigham Young University (UT)(p. 68)
• Bucknell University (PA)(p. 71)
• California State Polytechnic University (CA)(p. 75)
• Emory University (GA)(p. 79)
• Ferris State University (MI)(p. 84)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)(p. 88)
• Indiana University-Bloomington (IN)(p. 93)
• Kansas State University (KS)(p. 96)
• Kent State University (OH)(p. 100)
• Lehigh University (PA)(p. 103)
• Northwestern University (IL)(p. 108)
• Oregon State University (OR)(p. 111)
• Simon Fraser University (Canada)(p. 115)
• St. Martin's University (WA)(p. 119)
• Texas Christian University (TX)(p. 124)
• Trinity University (TX)(p. 128)
• University of Arizona (AZ)(p. 131)
• University of Auckland Grafton Medical and Health Sciences Campus (New Zealand)(p. 134)
• University of Auckland Kate Edger Information Commons (New Zealand)(p. 137)
• University of Calgary (Canada)(p. 142)
• University of Cape Town (South Africa)(p. 145)
• University of Cincinnati (OH)(p. 149)
• University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences (IA)(p. 153)
• University of Iowa Information Arcade (IA)(p. 158)
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (MN)(p. 162)
• University of Nevada-Las Vegas (NE)(p. 165)
• University of Newcastle (Australia)(p. 168)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)(p. 171)
• University of Waterloo (Canada)(p. 175)
• Afterword(p. 179)
• Appendix A Field Guide Entry Survey Form(p. 183)
• Appendix B Time Line of Information Commons Developments(p. 189)
• Index(p. 191)
• About the Editors and Contributors(p. 195)

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Information commons is an emerging library service model that encompasses the new ways libraries are providing access to information resources, joining collaborative service programs, and redesigning space to support changing user behaviors and patterns of learning. Part 1 offers contributed articles on topics such as the history of information commons in academic libraries, barriers to working and learning, and technology. Part 2, The Field Guide, consists of structured entries for information commons in 29 institutions around the world, with statistics and information on purpose, services, software, print resources, staff, funding or budget, publicity, and evaluation. Floor plans and photographs are included. Appendixes contain the field-guide survey form and a time line of information on commons developments. A short index completes the volume.--Awe, Susan Copyright 2009 Booklist

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Charles Forrest is director of Library Facilities Management and Planning at the Emory University General Libraries in Atlanta, Georgia.
Martin Halbert is director for Digital Innovations at the Emory University General Libraries in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also president of the MetaArchive Cooperative, an international digital preservation collaborative service for cultural memory organizations.