Open Collections

Apocalypse in the Stacks? The Research Library in the Age of Google

Green College (University of British Columbia); Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

What is the research library in the age of Google? Dr. Anthony Grafton provides the perspective of a humanist scholar on recent changes in research libraries that have been brought about by increased digitization. By examining changes that have occurred over the last forty years in the way that scholars conduct their research and where the library fits in, Grafton sees four crises that today’s academic libraries must face: financial, spatial, use, and accessibility. According to Professor Grafton, a research library should provide not only physical space where scholars can pursue research in books, but also virtual space where they can collect, store, and exploit electronic resources – an ingenious way to pull humanists, teachers, and students alike back into public workspace, in an environment that has the open, collective quality of a laboratory, but also meets the needs of researchers who work with texts, images, and sounds. This talk is hosted by Green College as part of its Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor lecture series.

Moving Image

2013-06-07

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44547

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/