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libraries

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What is a commons?What is a Commons?

A set of resources maintained in the public sphere for the use and benefit of everyone

(from Imagining a Smithsonian Commons)

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What is a learning commons?

A learning commons must,

therefore, in some sense be a

place where a “set of

[learning] resources [is]

maintained in the public

sphere for the use and benefit

of everyone”

But what kind of resources?

. . . and what kind of place?

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What’s so common about it?

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Partnership

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Collaboration is the key!