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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Greetings,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If your institution has a library facility called an Information Commons, Knowledge Commons, Learning Commons, Makerspace, or some similar name, we invite you to
complete a survey describing your facility for inclusion in an upcoming book entitled <i>A Field Guide to the Information Commons (Second Edition)</i>, which will be published by Scarecrow Press and authored by myself and Charles Forrest of Emory University.
The entries in this book will provide a snapshot of the current state of development in academic and research libraries of the information commons, a response to the pressures of a rapidly changing research and learning environment characterized by acquiring
and making accessible a host of new online information resources, developing innovative collaborative services, and transforming spaces to support changing user behaviors and patterns of learning.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Descriptive entries will include both text and images portraying facilities in several dozen libraries across North America and beyond. If you are interested in
submitting an entry to the book, please fill out the survey information at the following link. The survey will close January 31<sup>st</sup> at midnight.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Background: Developments in technology libraries and in the larger society continue to enable new forms of information seeking behavior and scholarship, drawing
a response from libraries that harkens back to the venerable notion of the “commons,” a public place that supports community, a place free to be used by everyone, which everyone has a joint right to use, to participate in or share, a place that is generally
accessible, affable and familiar. The first edition of the <i>Field Guide</i> described the early and rapid emergence of the concept of the “commons” and its widespread adoption among academic and research libraries. This second edition will capture the continued
evolution of the trend. Many thanks for participating!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Warm regards,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Martin Halbert (Ph.D., MLIS)<br>
UNT Dean of Libraries and Associate Professor</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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