Library 2.0How can we contribute to

University of Deusto new Library?

2009 doctoral course v1.0JosuKa Díaz and Joseba Abaitua

 

  Can we

 contribute to

the new Library?

 

Yes, we may! although UD's new library is not like this

 

 not like this either

 

It is rather

like this!

only 20% of the Library collection is available on shelves, at present

In

that percentage will decrease in the future and, on top of it, workplaces are separated                                                                                   

                                                  from book- shelves

so, is it a kind of bookless library?

 

NOOO!!! there are over 200,000 titles on shelves, another 800,000 stored and available on demand

and workplaces have good wifi connection!!!                                                 

so, is it perhaps a Library (mainly)  for online access??!!

...perhaps, but all University libraries will be like that in the

future, because...

• There are now approximately 5.5 million researchers worldwide

• Around 1.4 million articles are written annually by these researchers

• These articles are published in 23,000 scholarly journals

• There are about 2,000 publishers publishing these scholarly journals

• These publishers are made up of learned societies, university presses and independent publishers

• The number of articles, researchers and of journals published each year have increased steadily by about 3% and 3.5% per annum

(Source: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. White paper, Sept. 2006)

If you want to know how we are going to deal with this problem

you should join us in our course at 

http://www.deli.deusto.es/wiki/index.php/

Biblioteca_2.0/Curso