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Library and Information Science

2010

Providence College

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Institutional Repositories: A Disruptive Response To An Established Paradigm, Mark J. Caprio Oct 2010

Institutional Repositories: A Disruptive Response To An Established Paradigm, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

Presentation focused on Institutional Repositories as a disruptive technology, and as an essential system for the new unit of scholarly communication, that is, the complex digital object, components of which may exit in distributed environments.


Providence College Library + Commons: A Case Study, D. Russell Bailey Jan 2010

Providence College Library + Commons: A Case Study, D. Russell Bailey

D. Russell Bailey

Adapting concepts and experience from Information and Learning Commons, Providence College (PC) has developed a somewhat different model—organic (i.e., based on local library and institutional culture, needs, change-readiness; emerging in increments as opportunities arise, at a pace, at costs, and to degrees apropos institutional resources), hybrid (i.e., a seamless blend of services and resources, of new and high-tech with traditional and high-touch), and infused (i.e., the blend of services and resources is pushed out explicitly or implicitly into, and distributed among, all aspects of the physical and virtual library). PC’s Library+Commons incorporates resources and characteristics of Information and Learning Commons …