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Fixed - Flow: The Emergent Library, Laura Elizabeth Swartz
Fixed - Flow: The Emergent Library, Laura Elizabeth Swartz
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Traditional academic library have been concerned with physically containing institutional collections. However, today we see a paradigm shift in knowledge transfer, a digital wave sweeping book and periodical collections off the shelves of these centralized containers to offsite storage warehouses...
"The Emergent Library will re-define and activate a current academic library (and the 'Learning Commons') by embracing technology - both physical hardware and digital models (web 2.0 and 3.0) in concept and structure - which allow for the following:
[1] Networked management of perpetual real-time flow of knowledge
[2] User generated experiential spaces
[3] Barrier free access to emergent knowledge …