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The changing library

By Jessica Woolman on December 6, 2012

In the David Lam Library at UBC

Canaccord Learning Commons. Photo: Martin Dee

UBC Library and Ingrid Parent, University Librarian are featured in the recent Fall issue of Trek magazine that explores the changing nature of libraries.

Are libraries at risk of becoming museums for books? To stay relevant in the digital age, libraries add value to information by focusing on the services they provide, the sociability of the spaces they inhabit and the new technology they use to deliver content.

According to Ingrid Parent, UBC’s University Librarian, “the purpose of the library is to make connections between people and information and between people and people.” 

Read more from the article, “The Changing Library,” by Teresa Goff in Trek magazine online.

Ingrid Parent also comments in a recent Globe and Mail article about the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) and the transformation of libraries. The piece also features Sandra Singh, VPL’s Chief Librarian and the former Director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC.

 

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