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It seems like there are varying definitions of 'participatory librarianship'...at bowdoin our purchases are highly driven by faculty requests--not just suggestions. We also have several approval plans--but the ebook facet is different--with many plans, you pay something for a big bulk of titles, and then after x number of patrons look at it, in more than a cursory way, that item is purchased automatically. It seems that these programs are still being tweaked...and so far, not much art stuff in them. The problem of images will as Elizabeth says, keep us in the 'book' column for a while! Anne Anne B. Haas Art Librarian Bowdoin College 9300 College Station Brunswick, Maine 04011 [log in to unmask] On 10/5/11 10:24 AM, "Elizabeth Frenchman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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 >> >>On Oct 4, 2011, at 6:52 AM, "Lockard, Ray Anne" >><[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: >> >>Dear Colleagues, >> >>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. 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