Study on Information Commons Development Contrail and Countermeasures in Academic Libraries

  • Ma Wanmin ,
  • Zhang Meiwen
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  • 1. School of Management, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing 211815;
    2. School of Economics and Management, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing 211171

Received date: 2013-02-25

  Revised date: 2013-04-20

  Online published: 2013-05-05

Abstract

This paper discusses the definition of information commons, and the development trends of information commons in the academic library, and compares the three kinds of commons——IC,LC and RC. And then it introduces the establishment and assessment of research commons in the University of Cape Town. Finally the paper gives some advices to establish the information commons in academic libraries.

Cite this article

Ma Wanmin , Zhang Meiwen . Study on Information Commons Development Contrail and Countermeasures in Academic Libraries[J]. Library and Information Service, 2013 , 57(09) : 80 -83 . DOI: 10.7536/j.issn.0252-3116.2013.09.013

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