What does the academic library of the future look like?
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librarian anxieties
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Some of our reader workstations are arranged so that the screens are visible to anyone walking by, others face a wall with no passing traffic. I walked by one that had frozen with just the top half of a web page visible. The reader looked quite pa...
Our hardware needs to be up to date if we need to incorporate this.
probably the ones used the most by the students perhaps thru a lib. survey
Many librarians are scared that what happens in the insitution is increasingly passing the library by - people are accessing resources without having to go to the library. They're looking anxiously for ways to insert themselves into the research p...
but maybe this is the way students learn now so that would make it for academic purposes.
It will curb creativity, imagination, and might to lead to more plagiarism
stoopid network
need more money for more bandwidth - Web 2.0 sites use so much and a lot of internet traffic is not being used for 'academic' purposes/
Technology being slow
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- At 10:06pm on May 7, 2009,
Hazel Owen said…
- Hi Dipti. Great to see you here...look forward to sharing ideas. Cheers. Hazel
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