NEW REALITIES, NEW RELATIONSHIPS: Transforming the delivery of service: The joint-use library and information commons

Abstract

The new realities that are facing academic libraries today are challenging the profes- sion to rethink service roles and define new models of-service delivery. This reevaluation of roles provides opportunities for cultivating new relationships on our campuses and in our communities. In these times of libraries being marginalized in the digital age, it becomes most critical to maintain the importance and rel- evance of academic libraries as places of intel- lectual life and centers of activity. Two service models, "joint-use libraries" and "information commons" offer academic libraries unique, at- tractive service delivery options to help librar- ies rethink the library as a place for different types of learning and collaboration.