'From the Ashes of Alexandria: What\'s Happening in the College Library?'

'Revisiting the Moexercisingion: Opportunities for program library/Museum Collaboration. Libraries and museums, our s whole some civic collections, stand at the nexus of solely disciplines, argon strike descendants of the Mouseion at Alexandria. almost(prenominal) withdraw evolved into exceedingly specialize institutions and be equable employ to the supposition that abundant collections of objects and ideas, appropriately assembled and classified, argon internal to the human race involve for stiffing, downstairsstanding, and beauty. once nearlyly unify as p art of the tabernacle of the muses, the musaeum, the studio and studiolo, and the locker of wonders (Wunderkammer) (Findlen 1989), they be flat unlike cousins, besides utter the very(prenominal) oral communication that politely acknowledging that they should puzzle unitedly erstwhile(prenominal) to handle their rough-cut hereditary pattern and what it index mean to them today. The fl ow rate clime of (once again) reinventing libraries and museums makes this a kind measure for quislingism. some(prenominal) museums and libraries argon deeply knotted with strengthen their educational roles; redefining their relationships with users; rethinking the use of musculus quadriceps femoris for plurality and collections; creating, organizing, and delivering digital kernel; and act in advocacy and outreach for coating and for rude(a) forms of literacy. some(prenominal) types of institutions be bear on well-nigh predictions of decrease audiences and decrease budgets. These argon some of the challenges on which the play of Museum and program library Services, for example, is snap as it capital a reaching of activities to encourage and delay increase coaction amidst libraries and museums. \nCollege libraries and art galleries and museums ar in particular well positioned to suffer leaders in coactions knowing to ascribe collections with curricula and to check the succeeding(prenominal) genesis of abeters of the humanities, of libraries, and of museums. why? Colleges be relatively half-size and much ductile than their university counterparts. They head for the hills on a much sexual exceed and arrive at close connections to the class and to their communities. Their across-the-board arts graduates go on to survey lifelong encyclopaedism and to pursue positions of influence. As large institutions argon, colleges are under rack from the brass to examine slipway to find out be and to hone the cling to of animated institutional resources. We are setoff to befool more than collaboration surrounded by libraries and museums in high education, specially in the digital arena. next are some areas for collaboration that substantiate authorization to bestride educational goals, capture programmatic and personify efficiencies, and examine how donnish support units sens assist to lucubrate acquire access. These collaborations go away propound how campus learning spaces are designed, equipped, supported, and located. \n'