Throwing my two cents in as an architecture (as in functioning business) librarian.
The one area where it makes sense to keep the classic codex is art and architecture, due to the way the format is used. This isn't about text. It's about image. I am not academically oriented but a study should be made (if it hasn't been) about how users in image-based disciplines interact with various formats. If the users are somewhat oriented to the non-virtual world, then they need browsable, large format images that respond to available light. I truly don't think this is generational but you can see I prudently added a proviso about non-virtual.
I am more convinced than ever that only "fetish" books or magazines (Wired Magazine, the old Nest, fashion mags, lavish art books, artist books) will survive in paper. All else will be converted to electrons.
I can't weigh in on the "participatory librarianship" angle except to say that at this point unless something looks like exactly what fits our markets, I wait for the designers to request materials.
Elizabeth Frenchman
Resource Librarian
Aedas Architects, LLP
Architects and Planners
315 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013
Tel +1.212.633.7883 Fax +1.212.633.4760
Aedas
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>On Oct 4, 2011, at 6:52 AM, "Lockard, Ray Anne"
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>Dear Colleagues,
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>Our library system is moving inot what is being called "participatory
>librarianship" this year. All kinfds of changes will be made. Including
>user driven materials selection and, as I understand it, removal of
>reference desks, etc. More purchasing of e-books. I have refused to
>purvchase e-art books due to images or lack thereof. Are any of the rest
>of myou going through this?
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>Thansk so much for your comments both pro and con.
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>Yours, Ray Anne Lockard
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