Academic Libraries: "Social" or "Communal?" The Nature and Future of Academic Libraries

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-66

  Gayton, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 39149129348     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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3. See Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966) and Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963).
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7. Ibid., p. 22.
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9. Ibid., p. 29.
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16. It could be argued that the creation of social academic libraries is responsible for rising gate counts. However, Harold Shill and Shawn Tonner report that between 1995 and 2002 there were about 400 academic library facility projects, which represents only 11 percent of the 3653 academic libraries covered by the NCES in 2004. Moreover, it is not clear that social functions are responsible for rising gate counts in new and renovated academic libraries. See below for a further discussion of this point. Harold B. Shill and Shawn Tonner, "Creating a Better Place: Physical Improvements in Academic Libraries, 1995-2002," College & Research Libraries, 64 (Nov. 2003): 431. NCES, Academic Libraries: 2004, p. 5.
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20. See Richard J. Bazillion and Connie Braun, Academic Libraries as High-Tech Gateways: A Guide to Design and Space Decisions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 2001) and Lawrence Dowler, ed. (1997), Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Research (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997).
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22. Quoted in Joan K. Lippincott, "New Library Facilities: Opportunities for Collaboration," Resource Sharing and Information Networks 17 (2004): 150.
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24. Scott Bennett, "Libraries Designed for Learning," (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003): 4.
25. Freeman, "The Library as Place: Changes in Learning Patterns, Collections, Technology, and Use," p. 3.
26. Demas, "From the Ashes of Alexandria: What's Happening in the College Library?" p. 32.
27. Shill and Tonner, "Creating a Better Place: Physical Improvements in Academic Libraries, 1995-2002," p. 458.
28. Ibid., p. 449.
29. Ibid., p. 439.
30. Shill H.B., and Tonner S. Does the Building Still Matter? Usage Patterns in New, Expanded, and Renovated Libraries, 1995-2002. College and Research Libraries 65 (2004, Mar.) 133
31. Ibid., pp. 133-134.
32. Ibid., p. 143.
33. Ibid., p. 139.
34. Ibid., p. 140.
35. Ibid., p. 146.
36. Ibid., p. 147. Emphasis in original.
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38. It may be worth noting that Peterson's sensitivity to serving the needs of different kinds of users may stem from the fact that her library is a joint project between the City of San José and San José State University. Christina A. Peterson, "Space Designed for Lifelong Learning: The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint-Use Library," in Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Sources, 2005): 61.
39. Ranseen, "The Library as Place: Changing Perspectives," p. 204.
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41. Demas and Scherer, "Esprit de Place: Maintaining and Designing Library Buildings to Provide Transcendent Spaces," p. 66.