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Wwi Postcard Collection: A Community-Based Model For Digital Libraries, Marc D. Bayer Dec 2008

Wwi Postcard Collection: A Community-Based Model For Digital Libraries, Marc D. Bayer

Marc D Bayer

The paradigm shift of academic libraries from information purveyors to places of learning and communicating must occur virtually as well as physically. By creating informal virtual communities around digital collections , librarians can participate in the academic discussion and make more formal collections better known.


Information Commons To Go, Marc D. Bayer Feb 2008

Information Commons To Go, Marc D. Bayer

Marc D Bayer

This article describes the concept of a virtual information commons based not on the Web but on portable drives. ic2go is a collection of portable applications that are served from your USB device by a portable Web server. The applications have been configured to work properly and to include valuable support resources for the end user.