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Where You And I Are Going To Spend The Rest Of Our Lives: What A Future Library Looks Like When There Is No There... There., Corey Seeman

Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age - Conference Proceedings

Academic libraries have long envisioned a future where new services and functions are added to our existing structure of student and collection space. However, our future might be more driven not by what we gain, but by what we lose. In this presentation, a library that went through a massive change learned more quickly about the “library of the future” when they lost both student and collection space during a massive construction project. This presentation will share how the staff at this library adapted from a full service library to an information service unit; the service model of an “ethereal …