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

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
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Language:English
Published: 2021
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Library and information science
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152596
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1525962021-09-08T20:10:19Z Building an information commons at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Library : a case study Allmang, Nancy Liu, Rosa Sanders, Susan Library and information science 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. Published version 2021-09-03T08:32:06Z 2021-09-03T08:32:06Z 2005 Journal Article Allmang, N., Liu, R. & Sanders, S. (2005). Building an information commons at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Library : a case study. Library and Information Science Research E-Journal, 15(1), 1-21. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LIBRES.2005.1.4 1058-6768 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152596 10.32655/LIBRES.2005.1.4 1 15 1 21 en Library and Information Science Research E-Journal © 2005 Nancy Allmang, Rosa Liu and Susan Sanders. All rights reserved. application/pdf
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Building an information commons at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Library : a case study
description 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.
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