Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge.
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Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessible online and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge
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Printed books still play a critical role in supporting learners, but digital technologies offer additional pathways to learning and content acquisition. Students and teachers no longer need a library simply for access. Instead, they require a place that encourages participatory learning and allows for co-construction of understanding from a variety of sources.
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the space does include paper books and physical artifacts, as well as flexible furniture and an open environment, digital content encourages students to explore, play, and delve deeper into subjects they may not otherwise experience
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a flexible space with moveable chairs, desks, and even bookshelves. Small rooms can be opened up to allow for group projects, and the circulation desk as well as the sides of the stacks are writeable with dry-erase markers to encourage the collaboration and sharing that the previous space had discouraged.
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the role of the coffeehouse in the birth of the Enlightenment -- it provided "a space where people would get together from different backgrounds, different fields of expertise, and share."
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interact with the content, the technology, the space, and each other in order to gain context and increase their knowledge.
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Students and teachers no longer need a library simply for access. Instead, they require a place that encourages participatory learning and allows for co-construction of understanding from a variety of sources.
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The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
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around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
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the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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second technological shift when the codex replaced the scroll sometime soon after the beginning of the Christian era. By the third century AD, the codex—that is, books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll
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eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
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other reader's aids
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codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
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technology of printing did not change for nearly four centuries, but the reading public grew larger and larger, thanks to improvements in literacy, education, and access to the printed word.
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fourth great change, electronic communication
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movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
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writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
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codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
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would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
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Internet to search engines, nineteen years
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search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
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continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
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continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
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every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
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pace of change seems breathtaking:
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news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
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News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
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aving learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary sources for knowing what really happened
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newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
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We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
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as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
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Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts. By studying them skeptically on our computer screens, we can learn how to read our daily newspaper more effectively—and even how to appreciate old books.
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Unbelievers used to dismiss Henry Clay Folger's determination to accumulate copies of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare as the mania of a crank.
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When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
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eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
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only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
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extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
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Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
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They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
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question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
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o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
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We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
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Google proposal seemed to offer a way to make all book learning available to all people, or at least those privileged enough to have access to the World Wide Web
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will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
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Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
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scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
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notably American Memory sponsored by the Library of Congress[1] and the Valley of the Shadow created at the University of Virginia[2] —have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of databases on this scale
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will make research libraries obsolete
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2. Although Google pursued an intelligent strategy by signing up five great libraries, their combined holdings will not come close to exhausting the stock of books in the United States.
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1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
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If Google missed this book, and other books like it, the researcher who relied on Google would never be able to locate certain works of great importance.
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On the contrary, Google will make them more important than ever. To support this view, I would like to organize my argument around eight points.
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For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
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3. Although it is to be hoped that the publishers, authors, and Google will settle their dispute, it is difficult to see how copyright will cease to pose a problem.
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But nothing suggests that it will take account of the standards prescribed by bibliographers, such as the first edition to appear in print or the edition that corresponds most closely to the expressed intention of the author.
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Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
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it has not yet ventured into special collections, where the rarest works are to be found. And of course the totality of world literature—all the books in all the languages of the world—lies far beyond Google's capacity to digitize
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Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
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5. Google will make mistakes.
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Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
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6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
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all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
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7. Google plans to digitize many versions of each book, taking whatever it gets as the copies appear, assembly-line fashion, from the shelves; but will it make all of them available?
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4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
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No single copy of an eighteenth-century best-seller will do justice to the endless variety of editions. Serious scholars will have to study and compare many editions, in the original versions, not in the digitized reproductions that Google will sort out according to criteria that probably will have nothing to do with bibliographical scholarship.
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8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
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ts physical aspects provide clues about its existence as an element in a social and economic system; and if it contains margin notes, it can reveal a great deal about its place in the intellectual life of its readers.
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Rare book rooms are a vital part of research libraries, the part that is most inaccessible to Google. But libraries also provide places for ordinary readers to immerse themselves in books,
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Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
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I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
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he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
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The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
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Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 4 views
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If we want to connect with the latest generation of learners and teachers, we have to totally redesign the library from the vantage point of our users—our thinking has to do a 180-degree flip.
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This learning commons is both a physical and a virtual space that’s staffed not just by teacher-librarians but also by other school specialists who, like us, are having trouble getting into the classroom and getting kids’ attention.
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specialists such as literacy coaches, teacher technologists, teacher-librarians, art teachers, music teachers, and P.E. teachers
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experimental learning center,
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In the physical space, we enter a room that’s totally flexible, where furnishings can be moved about to accommodate different functions and groupings.
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the learning commons is both a giant, ongoing conversation and a warehouse of digital materials
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—from ebooks to databases to student-generated content—all available 24/7 yea
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Imagine a learning environment in which the multimedia world of information fed individual students’ needs, and where on-demand digital textbooks/multimedia/databases are available 24/7 and under the control of the user.
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examples of one-way communication.
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But in the new learning commons, homework assignments and library Web sites offer two-way communication.
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Directive adults have been transformed into coaches; direct teaching has been transformed into collaborative inquiry.
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On another day, parents may be invited to the learning commons to observe a jointly designed medieval art fair created by a classroom teacher, the art teacher, and the teacher-librarian.
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The experimental learning center aims to improve teaching and learning by offering professional development sessions and resources that are tailor-made to each school’s greatest needs.
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The teacher posts assignments on a blog that’s linked through an RSS feed to individual students in the class, each of whom can access the blog through an iGoogle page or another personal home page.
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Student comments made to the NYT article "Do school libraries need books"
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Do School Libraries Need Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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constant need to acquire new books
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Still need to acquire digital versions. The spending doesn't disappear with the paper.
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more efficient to work online
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went beyond stacks and stacks of underutilized books.
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Our library is now the most-used space on campus, with collaborative learning areas, classrooms with smart boards, study sections, screens for data feeds from research sites, a cyber cafe, and increased reference and circulation stations for our librarians. It has become a hub where students and faculty gather, learn and explore together.
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But they need more help from librarians to navigate these resources, so we have also increased our library staff by 25 percent.
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Cushing Academy today is awash in books of all formats. Many classes continue to use printed books, while others use laptops or e-readers. It is immaterial to us whether students use print or electronic forms to read Chaucer and Shakespeare. In fact, Cushing students are checking out more books than before, making extensive use of e-readers in our library collection. Cushing’s success could inspire other schools to think about new approaches to education in this century.
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Holding a book in our hands, we orient ourselves within a larger system.
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Strong sensory and nostalgic connections to books and the idea of reading.
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Who wrote that? Where are the competing voices? How is it organized? By what (and whose) terms is it indexed? Does it have pictures? Can I write in it myself?
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Is critical thinking enhanced by one format over another? I think these skills apply to all formats.
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knowledge is proximate
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Why is knowledge proximate? Global awareness is a goal for every student. What about POV?
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The digital natives in our schools need to have the experience of getting lost in a physical book, not only for the pure pleasure but also as a way to develop their attention spans, ability to concentrate, and the skill of engaging with a complex issue or idea for an uninterrupted period of time.
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It is possible to get lost in text, no matter the format. We see it every day. Students engrossed reading off their iTouch, desktops, laptops, Kindles and Nooks.
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The printed word long ago lost its position of eminence in the American library.
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Studies indicate people are reading more than ever - but not from paper.
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The tangibility of a traditional book allows the hands and fingers to take over much of the navigational burden: you feel where you are, and this frees up the mind to think.
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So many references to the tangible experience of paper. Nobody comments on how heavy a book is, how you can't take that many on your suitcase for vacation because of the weight, or holding it in bed at night. If we are going sensory, I'd rather pack/hold a Kindle.
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