Information commons redux: Concept, evolution, and transcending the tragedy of the commons

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 277-286

  Bailey, Russell ^a   Tierney, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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EID: 0036744397     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0099-1333(02)00319-1     Document Type: Article

References (30)

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2. Discrete computer labs and other high-tech labs or centers (e.g., Ferris State University’s Commons) [Online]. Available: http://www.ferris.edu/library/Services/information.html (accessed March 27, 2002)
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4. Donald Beagle Conceptualizing an Information Commons Journal of Academic Librarianship 25 March 1999 82 89
5. Martin Halbert Lessons from the Information Commons Frontier Journal of Academic Librarianship 25 March 1999 90 91
6. Philip Tramdack Reaction to Beagle Journal of Academic Librarianship 25 March 1999 92 93
7. Formal and informal/incidental team-building have proved of highest importance for these last two bulleted items
8. Allison Cowgill Joan Beam Lindsey Wess Implementing an Information Commons in a University Library Journal of Academic Librarianship 27 November 2001 432 439
9. Ibid., notes 12 and 13
10. Beagle, “Conceptualizing an Information Commons,” p. 82
11. Donald Beagle Jon Gretes Sallie Ives Ann Newman Michael Pearson Sam Watson “Information Commons Task Force Report” 1999 University of North Carolina Charlotte Charlotte
12. Beagle, “Conceptualizing an Information Commons,” p. 87
13. Virginia Massey-Burzio, “Rethinking the Reference Desk,” in Rethinking Reference in Academic Libraries , edited by Anne Grodzins Lipow (Berkeley, CA: Library Solutions Press, 1993), pp. 43–48; John C. Stalker & Marjorie E. Murfin, “Quality Reference Service: A Preliminary Case Study,” Journal of Academic Librarianship 22 (November 1996): 423–429; Karen J. Graves, “Implementation and Evaluation of Information Desk Services Provided by Library Technical Assistants,” Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 86 (October 1998): 475–485
14. Stalker & Murfin, “Quality Reference Service,” p. 424
15. Graves, “Implementation and Evaluation of Information Desk Services Provided by Library Technical Assistants,” pp. 475–485
16. Beagle, “Conceptualizing an Information Commons,” p. 85
17. Ibid
18. Ibid
19. The clear relationship of the Information Desk structure to the Brandeis model is the use of desk staff trained to handle information questions and basic level queries, and to refer more complex queries or aspects of queries to staff and/or areas of greater and more pertinent expertise
20. Cowgill, Beam, & Wess, “Implementing an Information Commons in a University Library,” notes 12 and 13
21. Beagle, “Conceptualizing an Information Commons,” p. 84
22. Ibid, p. 87
23. Halbert, “Lessons from the Information Commons Frontier,” p. 91
24. Beagle, “Conceptualizing an Information Commons,” p. 85
25. Ibid
26. Ibid
27. Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science 161 (December 1968): 1243–1248; Amy Brunvand, “The Information Commons: Librarians vs. Libertarians,” American Libraries (April 2001): 42–43; Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas. The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House, 2001); and the Web collection [Online]. Available: http://www.members.aol.com/trajcom/private/trajcom.htm (accessed April 15, 2002)
28. Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” p. 1244
29. Lessig, The Future of Ideas , p. 21
30. Ibid, p. 23