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I have held library management positions in public and academic libraries across my 40 year career. I served as Associate University Librarian at UNC—Charlotte until 2000, when I became Director of Library Services at Belmont Abbey College (Charlotte NC). I am now Professor Emeritus at Belmont Abbey College.

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ラーニング・コモンズの歴史的文脈 (特集ラーニング・コモンズ)

Revisiting Academic Library Design: A Response to William T. Caniano's "Academic Library Design: A Commons or an Athenaeum

Library Philosophy and Practice, Aug 1, 2011

The Learning Commons in Historical Context

The term Information Commons has been invoked since the mid-'s to describe the potential aggregat... more The term Information Commons has been invoked since the mid-'s to describe the potential aggregation of information and sharing of knowledge across physical, technological, and cultural boundaries. In the writings of Harlan Cleveland (founder of the University of Minnesota's Institute for Public Policy) and Robert W. Lucky, (Executive Director of Research at Bell Laboratories), the term came to represent a global internetworking of computers to communicate academic knowledge, leading-edge research, and professional expertise.[Cleveland , ; Lucky ] And, as libraries began to offer Web portals to aggregated databases and other consolidated digital resources in the 's, the predictions of Cleveland, Lucky, and others took tangible shape as students and faculty began to explore this development of the virtual commons. But other authors such as David Bollier had looked beyond this internetworked environment of the virtual commons, and used Information Commons even more broadly to encompass the cultural envelope of laws, regulations, and popular traditions that enabled freedom of expression and the social sharing of knowledge for the common good. This level of information commons was contrasted with countervailing trends of commercialization, commodification of information, and governmental restrictions on the open transfer of knowledge, sometimes rooted in national security and political ideology. [Bollier ] Libraries, in their preinternet traditional role as storehouses of the printed records of humanity, were viewed as both cornerstones and

Digital Authoring, Electronic Scholarship, and Libraries

Rethinking online instruction: From content transmission to cognitive immersion

Reference and User Services Quarterly, Jun 22, 2004

Résumé/Abstract As faculty make greater use of Web-based instruction, pedagogical strategy someti... more Résumé/Abstract As faculty make greater use of Web-based instruction, pedagogical strategy sometimes evolves from the transmission of content to the creation of interactive courses that immerse students in the cognitive style of the discipline. One technique associated with this is the classroom flip. Library instructional support for such courses may need to evolve from tool-based user guides toward saved searches and similar techniques that facilitate primary literature engagement. In this study, one project illustrating such ...

The Sociotechnical Networks of Scholarly Communication

portal - Libraries and the Academy, 2001

The complex state of flux in scholarly communications and publishing today cannot be described or... more The complex state of flux in scholarly communications and publishing today cannot be described or analyzed adequately in economic or technological terms. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) offers an interdisciplinary vocabulary and methodology that may have promising application to understanding this flux and its impact on libraries. Key terms and concepts advanced by several ANT researchers are applied to an overview of the evolution of scholarly communications networks and to an analysis of the strategy of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). A possible adaptation of the Jenkins-Fricke analytical matrix for tracking actors across the network is also discussed, as well as its potential as a predictive mechanism for anticipating future network elaboration.

Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space

D-lib Magazine, Jun 1, 2003

Libraries and the “Implicate Order”: A Contextual Approach to Theory

Libri, 1988

Outreach Services for Public Library I&R

Public Library Quarterly, Dec 1, 1982

This study demonstrates that public library Information and Referral services can reach a greater... more This study demonstrates that public library Information and Referral services can reach a greater number of disadvantaged persons through outreach. A project was designed to determine which outreach methods were effective in motivating lower income persons to use I&R. Methods evaluated were: personal contact, publicity, advertising, informative pamphlets, and workshops. Results indicate that personal contact with agencies and community groups is effective in motivating target populations. as measured by a large ...

Learning beyond the Classroom: Envisioning the Information Commons’ Future: Conference Report

Library Hi Tech News, Dec 1, 2004

Reports on the September 2004 conference &quot;Learning beyond the classroom: envisioning the... more Reports on the September 2004 conference &quot;Learning beyond the classroom: envisioning the information commons’ future&quot; held at the University of Southern California. The two‐day event overlapped USC’s 7th annual conference on Teaching and learning with technology (TLT), giving both librarians and faculty a unique opportunity to explore the collaborative agenda presented by new academic technologies.

Extending the Information Commons: From instructional testbed to Internet2

The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Sep 1, 2002

The Information Commons Handbook

Helps academic, public, and school librarians create spaces that encourage research, discovery, i... more Helps academic, public, and school librarians create spaces that encourage research, discovery, instruction, and learning. This handbook guides librarians through: space planning, budgeting, and technology set-up, service modification, staff reallocation, and training, assessment, improvement, and modification of services and facilities, and more.

The Virtual City: Putting Charleston on the World Wide Web

Conceptualizing an information commons

The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Mar 1, 1999

Conceptualizing an Information Commons by Donald Beagle Concepts from Strategic Alignment, a tech... more Conceptualizing an Information Commons by Donald Beagle Concepts from Strategic Alignment, a technology management theory, are used to discuss the Information Commons as a new service delivery model in academic libraries. The Information Commons, as a conceptual, physical, and instructional space, involves an organizational realignment from print to the digital environment.

The Learning Commons in historical context (特集ラーニング・コモンズ)

The college and university library has become the focal point of the Information Commons on physi... more The college and university library has become the focal point of the Information Commons on physical, virtual, and cultural levels. During the technology revolution of the s and s the Information Commons (IC) became established as a new model for service delivery in libraries. This model goes beyond the access and retrieval function of traditional reference service to support the full range of activities of information literacy, helping students access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information and knowledge. Since , many Information Commons facilities have been established in collaboration with other learning support units such as tutorial programs, writing centers, and faculty development centers. These expanded IC facilities are now often called Learning Commons. A case study of the author s consulting project at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island (USA) offers one example of how the fl oorspace of a traditional university library is being reconfi gured to create a Learning Commons.

The Emergent Information Commons: Philosophy, Models, and 21st Century Learning Paradigms

Journal of Library Administration, 2010

The learning support role of the Information Commons exhibits emergent properties characteristic ... more The learning support role of the Information Commons exhibits emergent properties characteristic of organizational learning theory. The literature review highlights four articles from the United States, one from Germany, and one from Japan to illustrate the issues involved. The philosophy of the commons extension across physical, virtual, and cultural domains and the development of the Learning Commons as a collaboration among multiple learning support units, including libraries, are traced from theoretical origins through real-world examples. "Integrative learning" is offered as one example of a 21st century learning paradigm being supported by such collaborations, as evidenced by the development of commons-based e-portfolio systems.

Web-based Learning Environments: Do Libraries Matter?

College & Research Libraries, Jul 1, 2000

I&R and Public Library Management

North Carolina Libraries, 1984

ラーニング・コモンズの歴史的文脈

Libraries and the “Implicate Order”: A Contextual Approach to Theory

Libri, 1988

ラーニング・コモンズの歴史的文脈 (特集ラーニング・コモンズ)

Revisiting Academic Library Design: A Response to William T. Caniano's "Academic Library Design: A Commons or an Athenaeum

Library Philosophy and Practice, Aug 1, 2011

The Learning Commons in Historical Context

The term Information Commons has been invoked since the mid-'s to describe the potential aggregat... more The term Information Commons has been invoked since the mid-'s to describe the potential aggregation of information and sharing of knowledge across physical, technological, and cultural boundaries. In the writings of Harlan Cleveland (founder of the University of Minnesota's Institute for Public Policy) and Robert W. Lucky, (Executive Director of Research at Bell Laboratories), the term came to represent a global internetworking of computers to communicate academic knowledge, leading-edge research, and professional expertise.[Cleveland , ; Lucky ] And, as libraries began to offer Web portals to aggregated databases and other consolidated digital resources in the 's, the predictions of Cleveland, Lucky, and others took tangible shape as students and faculty began to explore this development of the virtual commons. But other authors such as David Bollier had looked beyond this internetworked environment of the virtual commons, and used Information Commons even more broadly to encompass the cultural envelope of laws, regulations, and popular traditions that enabled freedom of expression and the social sharing of knowledge for the common good. This level of information commons was contrasted with countervailing trends of commercialization, commodification of information, and governmental restrictions on the open transfer of knowledge, sometimes rooted in national security and political ideology. [Bollier ] Libraries, in their preinternet traditional role as storehouses of the printed records of humanity, were viewed as both cornerstones and

Digital Authoring, Electronic Scholarship, and Libraries

Rethinking online instruction: From content transmission to cognitive immersion

Reference and User Services Quarterly, Jun 22, 2004

Résumé/Abstract As faculty make greater use of Web-based instruction, pedagogical strategy someti... more Résumé/Abstract As faculty make greater use of Web-based instruction, pedagogical strategy sometimes evolves from the transmission of content to the creation of interactive courses that immerse students in the cognitive style of the discipline. One technique associated with this is the classroom flip. Library instructional support for such courses may need to evolve from tool-based user guides toward saved searches and similar techniques that facilitate primary literature engagement. In this study, one project illustrating such ...

The Sociotechnical Networks of Scholarly Communication

portal - Libraries and the Academy, 2001

The complex state of flux in scholarly communications and publishing today cannot be described or... more The complex state of flux in scholarly communications and publishing today cannot be described or analyzed adequately in economic or technological terms. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) offers an interdisciplinary vocabulary and methodology that may have promising application to understanding this flux and its impact on libraries. Key terms and concepts advanced by several ANT researchers are applied to an overview of the evolution of scholarly communications networks and to an analysis of the strategy of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). A possible adaptation of the Jenkins-Fricke analytical matrix for tracking actors across the network is also discussed, as well as its potential as a predictive mechanism for anticipating future network elaboration.

Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space

D-lib Magazine, Jun 1, 2003

Libraries and the “Implicate Order”: A Contextual Approach to Theory

Libri, 1988

Outreach Services for Public Library I&R

Public Library Quarterly, Dec 1, 1982

This study demonstrates that public library Information and Referral services can reach a greater... more This study demonstrates that public library Information and Referral services can reach a greater number of disadvantaged persons through outreach. A project was designed to determine which outreach methods were effective in motivating lower income persons to use I&R. Methods evaluated were: personal contact, publicity, advertising, informative pamphlets, and workshops. Results indicate that personal contact with agencies and community groups is effective in motivating target populations. as measured by a large ...

Learning beyond the Classroom: Envisioning the Information Commons’ Future: Conference Report

Library Hi Tech News, Dec 1, 2004

Reports on the September 2004 conference &quot;Learning beyond the classroom: envisioning the... more Reports on the September 2004 conference &quot;Learning beyond the classroom: envisioning the information commons’ future&quot; held at the University of Southern California. The two‐day event overlapped USC’s 7th annual conference on Teaching and learning with technology (TLT), giving both librarians and faculty a unique opportunity to explore the collaborative agenda presented by new academic technologies.

Extending the Information Commons: From instructional testbed to Internet2

The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Sep 1, 2002

The Information Commons Handbook

Helps academic, public, and school librarians create spaces that encourage research, discovery, i... more Helps academic, public, and school librarians create spaces that encourage research, discovery, instruction, and learning. This handbook guides librarians through: space planning, budgeting, and technology set-up, service modification, staff reallocation, and training, assessment, improvement, and modification of services and facilities, and more.

The Virtual City: Putting Charleston on the World Wide Web

Conceptualizing an information commons

The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Mar 1, 1999

Conceptualizing an Information Commons by Donald Beagle Concepts from Strategic Alignment, a tech... more Conceptualizing an Information Commons by Donald Beagle Concepts from Strategic Alignment, a technology management theory, are used to discuss the Information Commons as a new service delivery model in academic libraries. The Information Commons, as a conceptual, physical, and instructional space, involves an organizational realignment from print to the digital environment.

The Learning Commons in historical context (特集ラーニング・コモンズ)

The college and university library has become the focal point of the Information Commons on physi... more The college and university library has become the focal point of the Information Commons on physical, virtual, and cultural levels. During the technology revolution of the s and s the Information Commons (IC) became established as a new model for service delivery in libraries. This model goes beyond the access and retrieval function of traditional reference service to support the full range of activities of information literacy, helping students access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information and knowledge. Since , many Information Commons facilities have been established in collaboration with other learning support units such as tutorial programs, writing centers, and faculty development centers. These expanded IC facilities are now often called Learning Commons. A case study of the author s consulting project at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island (USA) offers one example of how the fl oorspace of a traditional university library is being reconfi gured to create a Learning Commons.

The Emergent Information Commons: Philosophy, Models, and 21st Century Learning Paradigms

Journal of Library Administration, 2010

The learning support role of the Information Commons exhibits emergent properties characteristic ... more The learning support role of the Information Commons exhibits emergent properties characteristic of organizational learning theory. The literature review highlights four articles from the United States, one from Germany, and one from Japan to illustrate the issues involved. The philosophy of the commons extension across physical, virtual, and cultural domains and the development of the Learning Commons as a collaboration among multiple learning support units, including libraries, are traced from theoretical origins through real-world examples. "Integrative learning" is offered as one example of a 21st century learning paradigm being supported by such collaborations, as evidenced by the development of commons-based e-portfolio systems.

Web-based Learning Environments: Do Libraries Matter?

College & Research Libraries, Jul 1, 2000

I&R and Public Library Management

North Carolina Libraries, 1984

ラーニング・コモンズの歴史的文脈

Libraries and the “Implicate Order”: A Contextual Approach to Theory

Libri, 1988

Editor's Introduction to RADCLIFFE SQUIRES: SELECTED POEMS

RADCLIFFE SQUIRES: SELECTED POEMS 1950-1985, 2017