Library as Knowledge Commons for the University

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College University Libraries
Department J. Willard Marriott Library
Creator Ogburn, Joyce L.
Title Library as Knowledge Commons for the University
Date 2010
Description For much of the 20th century libraries were known and valued for their collections, and the defining role for a library was to be "a repository of knowledge." Although libraries continue to build and deliver a large collection of resources, we are now defined by the services we offer and our ability to make the work of our users more productive in all areas of teaching, learning and research. To meet this ambition our libraries have become agents of transformation, innovation, development, growth, and opportunity; we are centers for innovation, anchors for projects, and instigators as well as incubators for collaborations that produce integrated, scalable, extensible, lasting, powerful and demonstrable results. We supply access to high quality knowledge, coupled with high tech, high touch services that strive to remove the mystery from research and learning. We teach our students to be "smart for life," with a solid grounding in critical thinking that will serve them for their entire life experience of finding, utilizing, evaluating, and creating knowledge in their chosen careers and personal lives. More than ever we are integral to the process of knowledge generation, and as intensively interdisciplinary centers, we serve as knowledge commons for the university.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
First Page 1
Last Page 5
Subject Knowledge Commons
Subject LCSH Information commons; University of Utah; Libraries
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Ogburn, J. L. (2010). Library as Knowledge Commons for the University. 1-5.
Rights Management (c)Ogburn, J.
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 73,466 bytes
Identifier ir-main,12845
ARK ark:/87278/s61551nc
Setname ir_uspace
ID 707009
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61551nc
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