[Yulpub] The library as place

[Suzanne Lorimer]

 From today's issue of LJ Academic News Wire:

CLIR ISSUES REPORT ON LIBRARY AS PLACE
The "library as place" has been a hot topic in recent
years. In a new report, the Council on Library and
Information Resources (CLIR) presents essays from six
experts--an architect, four librarians, and a humanities
professor. The authors provide diverse visions of the
library, its services, and its space in the twenty-first
century, examining the role of the library in the digital
age and the impact of new technology on the creation and
design of library space. "Ten or fifteen years ago we were
taking all the teaching facilities out of libraries,"
writes architect Geoffrey Freeman in an opening
essay. "Today, these spaces are back . . . and in a more
dynamic way than ever." The goal, Freeman adds, is for the
library to "function foremost as an integral and
interdependent part of the institution's total educational
experience." Other contributors include Scott Bennett,
Yale librarian emeritus; Sam Demas, college librarian at
Carleton College; Bernard Frischer, professor of art
history and classics at the University of Virginia and
director of the university's Institute for Advanced
Technology in the Humanities; Christina Peterson, a
librarian at the hybrid Martin Luther King Jr. Library in
San José; and Kate Oliver, associate director for the
medical library at Johns Hopkins University. To see a
summary and free download, visit:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub129abst.html.


Suzanne Lorimer
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