Building an information commons at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Library : a case study

With the advent of the new Knowledge Society, special libraries need to review user zones and services to ensure that they continue to provide features customers want and need. They must now offer spaces and places for people to come together, as in the English Commons of old, to share ideas and tec...

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Main Authors: Allmang, Nancy, Liu, Rosa, Sanders, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152596
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:With the advent of the new Knowledge Society, special libraries need to review user zones and services to ensure that they continue to provide features customers want and need. They must now offer spaces and places for people to come together, as in the English Commons of old, to share ideas and technologies. They must heed the call of the open access movement and begin to play a part in it. This article discusses details of the transformation of physical and virtual spaces of the Research Library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology over the past two years into a comprehensive InfoCommons.