Creating the Academic Commons: Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research

Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These centers of information have been labeled variously but they all share a commonality: the empowerment of students and teachers.

In Creating the Academic Commons: Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research, Thomas Gould gives a ...