LofT Committees - 2001
University
of Virginia Library
Information Communities Planning Team
1. Background
At the center
of the Library of Tomorrow is a concept we are calling Information Communities.
Information communities are learning and teaching environments in which subject-driven
websites are developed around print and digital versions of our collections
and the teaching interests of our faculty members. An information community
consists of people (faculty, students, librarians, authors, publishers), collections
(text, image, video, audio, map, data), and the tools needed for interacting
with those collections. Information Communities will foster interdisciplinary
and collaborative research and publication amongst scholars with common interests.
Existing library services will be reshaped to support information communities
and the expanded capabilities they will bring to instruction and research.
See the "Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library" at http://www.lib.virginia.edu/infocom/tibet/
as an example of a developing Information Community.
2. Charge
The Information
Communities Planning Team will create guidelines and implementation plans
for developing and supporting information communities for up to 5 pilot projects
including the Tibetan project and most likely communities for the environment,
the fine arts, and poetry.
The team will:
- Further define the
concept of information communities and develop a model for promoting the
concept.
- Assess commonalities
and identify best practices in current information community projects.
- Recommend a planning
process for assigning priority to the creation of information communities
and the digitized local content to support them.
- Prepare guidelines
for developing team structures to support and manage new information communities.
- Prepare an implementation
plan that addresses technical, educational (staff and user), workflow,
resource, and staffing implications.
3. Leader
Karen Marshall
4. Members
- Hoke Perkins
- Mike Furlough
- Chris Ruotolo
- Kay Cutler
- Gary Treadway
- Ming Lung
- Warner Granade
- Susanna Boylston
- Lucie Stylianopoulos
- Phil McEldowney
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