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Information commons


  • Here are entered works on either (1) a physical facility or section of a library that organizes workspace and service delivery around an integrated digital environment and the technology that supports it, or (2) at a broader level, an online environment that allows for accessing a variety of electronic resources and services through a single interface and for searching them with a single search engine, or (3) at the broadest level, the entire social and cultural arena of free speech, shared knowledge, and creative expression in the digital age, as contained in laws, regulations, commercial practices, and popular traditions.
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  • Variants

    • Commons, Information
    • Commons, Learning
    • Learning commons
  • Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: 2006026227: Beagle, Donald Robert. The information commons handbook, c2006:ECIP galley (the term most frequently and generically applied continues to be Information Commons; at least three distinct but interrelated levels: Physical Commons (a new type of physical facility or section of a library specifically designed to organize workspace and service delivery around an integrated digital environment and the technology that supports it); Virtual Commons (a pervasive online environment in which a wide variety of electronic resources and services can be accessed through a single graphical use interface (GUI) and potentially searched in parallel with a single search engine from any networked workstation); Cultural Commons (a label for the entire social and cultural arena of free speech, shared knowledge, and creative expression in the digital age, as contained in the surrounding envelope of laws, regulations, commercial practices, and popular traditions))
    • found: Learning commons, 2008.
    • found: Google search, Apr. 7, 2009(UMass Amherst Learning Commons-W.E.B. Du Bois Library: Learning commons-NCSU libraries)
  • LC Classification

    • ZA3270
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on either (1) a physical facility or section of a library that organizes workspace and service delivery around an integrated digital environment and the technology that supports it, or (2) at a broader level, an online environment that allows for accessing a variety of electronic resources and services through a single interface and for searching them with a single search engine, or (3) at the broadest level, the entire social and cultural arena of free speech, shared knowledge, and creative expression in the digital age, as contained in laws, regulations, commercial practices, and popular traditions.
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  • Change Notes

    • 2006-08-23: new
    • 2009-07-09: revised
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