Nancy Allmang, Reference Librarian
nancy.allmang@nist.gov
Rosa Liu, Research Library and Information Group Leader
rosa.liu@nist.gov
Susan Sanders, former Deputy Chief, Information Services Division
susansanders@comcast.net
Information Services Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2500
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
With the advent of the new Knowledge Society, special libraries need to review user zones and services to ensure that they continue to provide features customers want and need. They must now offer spaces and places for people to come together, as in the English Commons of old, to share ideas and technologies. They must heed the call of the open access movement and begin to play a part in it. This article discusses details of the transformation of physical and virtual spaces of the Research Library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology over the past two years into a comprehensive InfoCommons.
Cite: Allmang, N., Liu, R. & Sanders, S. (2005). Building an information commons at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Library : a case study. LIBRES, 15(1), 1‑21. https://doi.org/10.32655/LIBRES.2005.1.4