Talk:Information commons

Brilliant though the new Information Commons at the University of Sheffield is (and I'm not an entirely unbiased observer), the penultimate bullet point needs to be amended to refer to the more general usage of Information Commons as a library or learning space with pervasive IT. The University of Sheffield's new facility is almost certainly the first in the UK to use this label, but it has gained in popularity in North America and elsewhere during the last decade.

There are two distinct variants in the types of facility so designated


 * large standalone buildings, such as Sheffield's, the University of Auckland's, and Loyola University's


 * areas of existing buildings, usually university libraries, equipped with student computers and often refurbished and refurnished to accommodate the necessary power and data services

A useful but now somewhat dated guide to IC facilities worldwide was compiled by David Murray in 2001 and is available at http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/library/infocommons/ic_home.html.

I will be happy to make an edit along these lines, but will be grateful for comments and other examples first.

Artq55 21:26, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

This page seems to be rather unfocused. The title is 'Information Commons' but it ranges over a number of other areas. These all seem to be taken from http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/infocommons.II.html. Also, is there any reason for some of the subtitles to use 'common' and some 'commons'? Any objection if I edit them all to 'commons' (as the plural is usual in this context)?

Leornian (talk) 22:11, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Connect with knowledge commons?
Doing some informal research around this area, it struck me that it might help readers to have a "See also" reference to Knowledge commons? There is already a link back here from there. Does this sound like a good idea for fellow Wikipedians who watch this page? Simon Grant (talk) 20:58, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Should future generations be linked?
Please see the discussion at Talk:Future generations which relates to reverted edits to this article. Verbcatcher (talk) 10:10, 16 April 2021 (UTC)