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Ebook Transforming library service through information commons: Case studies for the digital age present the following contents: Chapter 1: Definitions: information commons and learning commons; Chapter 2: History and evolution of the information commons concept; Chapter 3: Planning; Chapter 4: Implementation; Chapter 5: Assessment; Chapter 6: Information commons case studies: large academic libraries; Chapter 7: Information commons case studies: small academic libraries; Chapter 8: Lessons learned; Chapter 9: Sample brand and graphics; Chapter 10: Sample information commons survey.

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In this section, the scope and character of holdings in the HathiTrust Digital Library and ReCAP print repository are examined with a view to their potential value in a shared service environment. We first consider the range of holdings in the HathiTrust Digital Library, on the premise that the vast and still expanding scope of the mass-digitized corpus will be a key driver in the transformation of academic library collections and services.

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The fact that critical elements of the shared infrastructure needed to effect a large-scale transition from print to electronic research collections were owned and managed by the library community itself gave library directors confidence that the timing and outcomes of this transition could be managed according to the needs of the academic community and not dictated by the business objectives of commercial providers.

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In spring 2009, a group of ARL directors came together to discuss a common set of challenges and opportunities facing university libraries and identify some shared strategies for responding to them. A number of circumstances were converging that appeared to offer some potential relief from critical space pressures in the library and the increasingly burdensome operations associated with managing a large local inventory of low-use print collections.

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At the same time, the emergence of the HathiTrust, a shared digital repository consolidating much of the library-contributed content from the Google Books database, appeared to resolve many of the concerns the library community had regarding long-term stewardship of the mass-digitized book corpus.

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Analysis of the distribution of subject matter and library holdings represented in the HathiTrust Digital Library and shared print repositories further confirmed that the digital corpus is largely representative of the collective academic library collection, suggesting a broad potential market for service.

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