Passend zur aktuellen Abstimmung: Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), February 2005, Pub 129, 81 pp und hier insbesondere das Kapitel The Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library as Base: Information Professionals Working in Library User Environments von Kathleen Burr Oliver (Pflichtlektüre!) [Base heißt hier nicht einfach „Basis“, sondern die zentrale Stelle im Baseball]
Abstract: „What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors – an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics – explore these questions in Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space. In their essays, the authors challenge us to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.“