Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project’s Most Valuable Lessons

Michael Cave Valeda F. Dent Jessie Hey Ann Lees Astrid Wissenburg

Ariadne 2001
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:2001:i:26:p:2)

Abstract:

The MALIBU Project has as its main goal to develop examples of hybrid libraries, focusing specifically on the humanities, at each of three major partner institutions (King’s College London, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). The research and outcomes of the project have reinforced generally held ideas about issues such as what users want, and how they go about obtaining what they want. However, it has also highlighted some important distinctions about the process of providing hybrid services to the user and the impact on the hybrid library. Each discovery has involved a great deal of learning and synthesis of those lessons, followed dissemination to relevant colleagues and institutions through workshops, presentations, papers, etc.

Note: Three years ago, armed with a solid and highly detailed project plan and a wonderful team, members of the MALIBU project staff began a journey. How could anyone have known that the journey would be so rich, involve so many different co-travellers, exciting destinations and so many information-adventures? Michael Cave, Valeda F. Dent, Jessie Hey, Ann Lees, and Astrid Wissenburg describe the project.
Month: 10-January-2001
Year: 2001

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