Establishing Library Learning Commons in Universities of India: A Case Study of BHU Library System

Traditional libraries have recognition as a physical space, as a physical collection, and as a traditional scribe in the era of industrial society and before. At present, the paradigm shift due to the advent of computer technology, information technology (IT) and information communication technology (ICT) has changed the way of information seeking, reading habits, learning methods, and even social connectivity and interactions of the society. Furthermore, these changes can be seen in the reading habits, information search, learning and teaching methods of students and faculty members engaged in higher education and research works. These transformations in users laid academic libraries to adopt new collections, services, tools and techniques, and more skilled staffs. It has also forced academic libraries to redesign their existing services, resources, and physical spaces with the addition of digital services, digital resources, and virtual spaces. All these tend to transform service delivery models and to reshape the reading areas according to the learning and reading habits of the users, especially digital native and net generation users. The Learning Commons (LC) is one of the new services which came into existence due to these transformations. Library Learning Commons (LLCs) are collaborative learning spaces in libraries for both students and faculties which provide a convenient, comfortable, flexible and more productive environment for learning, reading and research work. The purpose of this article is to provide a perspective on informal library learning commons developed in BHU Library System and to find the feasibilities to acquire new techniques and services to cope with the continuous paradigm shift towards the digital environment

Transfer, transformation, transition: what the school librarian can do in transliteracy, the French context

International audienceWith the emergence of digital information, the school library as a physical location still exists but its spaces and boundaries are reshuffled. This major change encourages us to study the new distribution of spaces in school libraries, the relationships between different types of spaces (physical and digital, individual and social, private and public) and the way pupils move from one to the other. Information transliteracy is the topic of a research project led in France. Our research points out the transformation of learning strategies in collaborative situations, transfers between informal personal digital abilities and formal academic skills and between experts and novices, transition from learning to creating, cognitive redistribution between spaces. We explore and try to explain some of these processes which seem to us encouraging for the future of school libraries and signs of a renewal of the task of librarians, implying new modes of action which we will describe: mediation, creation, education

2017 State of the Library

Agenda Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian Budget ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award Strategic Plan 2017-2020 Elizabeth McKeigue, Associate University Librarian for Learning and Engagement Learning and study spaces Instruction and student engagement Digital humanities Rice Majors, Associate University Librarian for Resources and Digital Services Collections & Access budget & assessment Archives & Special Collections donations Scholarly Communicatio

Digital library applications and interactive Web: from space to virtual place

Introducing this session during the Conference Cultural Heritage Online I was looking for finding a reply to the following questions: How librarians and technologists can exploit the potential of emerging technologies? How can the cultural institutions transform the way digital libraries provide services and resources? In trying to reply to these questions, after the conclusion of the session, I reflected on what the speakers have presented. They have described how emerging technologies can support the integration of different digital collections, can facilitate community building and extend connectivity to the ubiquitous user. However the speakers of the session have evidenced that there are challenges on existing delivery models of traditional cultural institutions, which have to change. Two new roles were emerging from the presentations: a new role of digital libraries, a new role of users This two roles are two faces of the same coin: digital libraries are participating to a diffused culture of learning; users are actively engaged in creation, modification, and distribution of information objects in digital libraries as learners in a new virtual space. Analyzing the different presentations, I can say that the digital libraries applications, with a focus on their users, move from the paradigm of cultural institutions as place to the paradigm of digital libraries as virtual spaces for learning

Assessing the Digital Media Commons: Evaluating New Library Spaces and Services at UNC Greensboro

As academic libraries continue to adopt and expand upon learning commons service models, assessment of these new and emerging spaces and services is critical to understanding and demonstrating their value to the campus community. In Fall 2012, the University Libraries, UNC Greensboro created a new kind of learning space -- the Digital Media Commons (DMC) -- to help address and support digital literacy needs across the campus. The DMC is jointly staffed by the Libraries and the University’s Digital Literacy Center. These partners provide the UNCG community with layers of support for multimodal projects, from assignment creation and refinement to rhetorical consultation and technical production assistance. This session describes early efforts by the Libraries to understand DMC patron needs in terms of services, technology, and space, and explores what impact, if any, these services have on student learning. Through a series of semester-long studies, we analyzed how our technology, space, and staff resources were being utilized. Surveys, focus groups, workshop evaluations, desk transactions, and physical usage statistics were all gathered and analyzed. This combined data offered valuable insight into the overall effectiveness of the new space and services, as well as providing a direction for future assessment in the DMC

Fulcrum, Newsletter of the Furman University Libraries. Issue 03

This issue of Fulcrum, the newsletter of the Furman University Libraries, includes articles on: new learning spaces in the James B. Duke Library, the Libraries\u27 homepage redesign, the Summer O Shelving activity, BrowZine, and the J. Lyles Alley exhibit in Special Collections and Archives, The issue also includes News from the Stacks, profiles on Rick Jones and Jonathan Newton, and updates from the Digital Collections Center, Special Collections and Archives, and WorkSmart Workshops

Public libraries in the knowledge society: Core services of libraries in informational world cities

Abstract: Informational Cities are the prototypical spaces of the knowledge society. Public libraries play an important role as parts of the digital, smart, knowledge and creative infrastructures of these Informational Cities. Libraries have economic value as location factors in the two spaces of Informational Cities, the physical and the digital. For this reason, we divided the library services into two main groups, namely the digital library and the physical library. For 31 specified Informational World Cities, we empirically analyzed the core services of their public libraries via content analysis of the libraries' Web pages. Additionally, we studied these libraries' social media activities. Many libraries provide free e-resources (above all, e-books, e-journals and bibliographical databases) to their customers. Libraries offer digital reference services, mainly via e-mail and Web forms. Their presence in social media is dominated by posts on Facebook and Twitter. Nearly all public libraries we analyzed represent attractive architectural landmarks in their region. Besides offering spaces for children, the libraries provide rooms for learning and getting together and, to a lesser degree, modular working spaces. Most libraries provide Wi-Fi inside their buildings; more than half of those we investigated work with RFID technology. The prototypical public library in the knowledge society has two core services: (1) to support citizens, companies and administrations in their city and region with digital services, namely e-resources as well as reference services, and to communicate with their customers via social media; and (2) to provide physical spaces for meeting, learning and working, as well as areas for children and other groups, in a building that is a landmark of the city

Library strategies in the Cyber-Physical Society

The Fourth Industrial Revolution leads to cyber-physical systems facilitating communication not only between machines and people, but between machines themselves (Straub, 2015). Such radical changes give rise to the cyber-physical society including not only the physical and virtual spaces, but the human social, and cultural sphere as well (Monostori 2019). Several professions and trades disappear and new ones emerge on the labour market while the skills required of employees have changed too (World Economy Forum, 2018). Hence the need for institutions capable of preparing people to meet such challenges becomes pressing. In the United States libraries are expected train the population for the use of technological devices brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution along with improving the respective digital competence levels (Horrigan, 2016). Furthermore, various international strategies and the changing learning environment assign new tasks for libraries. Thus in the 21st century, in addition to their traditional function libraries have to become -digital education centres -learning environments -on-line educational spaces. Based upon data obtained via computerized qualitative content analysis of international strategies my presentation focuses on the changing tasks and future perspectives of libraries

Las bibliotecas universitarias en su contexto actual

The academic libraries are complex institutions with a lot of roles; they have offered their services and products along the History and their main goal has been permanent: to offer access to the useful and real scientific information. But today, we are seeing that this role is not the same because of the digital technology. In this paper we try to show basics lines in order the academic libraries recover their prominent status in the digital era: selecting resources and management licences, working with metadata, offering reference virtual services, information literacy, digitizing documents, IR and learning spaces. These services come from the main mission of the academic library and they are in the line of the academic library future

The future of the public library:reimagining the moral economy of the 'people's university'

New media technologies, the digitisation of information, learning archives and heritage resources are changing the nature of the public library and museums services across the globe, and, in so doing, changing the way present and future users of these services interact with these institutions in real and virtual spaces. New digital technologies are rewriting the nature of participation, learning and engagement with the public library, and fashioning a new paradigm where virtual and physical spaces and educative and temporal environments operate symbiotically. It is with such a creatively disruptive paradigm that the £193 million Library of Birmingham project in the United Kingdom is being developed. New and old media forms and platforms are helping to fashion new public places and spaces that reaffirm the importance of public libraries as conceived in the nineteenth century. As people’s universities, the public library service offers a web of connective learning opportunities and affordances. This article considers the importance of community libraries as sites of intercultural understanding and practical social democracy. Their significance is reaffirmed through the initial findings in the first of a series of community interventions forming part of a long-term project, ‘Connecting Spaces and Places’, funded by the Royal Society of Arts