{"id":10,"date":"2008-07-11T02:16:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T00:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preblogs.deusto.es\/abaitua\/?p=10"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T08:23:05","slug":"deustos-new-library-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.deusto.es\/abaitua\/deustos-new-library-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Deusto’s new Library 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I received a very exciting mail from our University Library’s manager, Nieves Taranco<\/strong>. The mail was a bitext<\/a>, because Deusto is an officially bilingual institution, and official mails should always be Spanish-Basque bimails<\/em> (i.e. bilingual mails). For those who understand Spanish \ud83d\ude09 I’ll reproduce some fragments below.<\/p>\n

The message anounced the imminent move of all Library contents from the old building to the new one, designed by Rafael Moneo<\/a>, which is almost ready at the other side of river Nervi\u00f3n<\/a>. The new construction promises many new opportunities, not only because of the tremendous conditions it exhibits in terms of space and technical equipment, but because Nieves in particular, and University leaders at large aim at making the new site a true CRAI<\/strong> (Learning and Research Resource Centre, by the way a recent widespread trend, eg UPF’s<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The acronym does not sound very appealing, and reminds me of a well known supercomputer brand (CRAY<\/a>). I really prefer the more classical name “Library”, or “Biblioteca” in our case. So better than CRAI I’ll like to see it as Deusto’s new Biblioteca 2.0 (despite Ismael El-Qudsi<\/a> or Antonio Fumero<\/a> disqualifying 2.0 vogues – trendy people tend to dislike trends when they become too popular).<\/p>\n

I have to say that today am particularly excited because, only one day after Nieves’ mail, I’ve met Lorena Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> and I\u00f1aki Fuertes<\/strong> (our Web 2.0 guru, the former, and the head of the University’s Computing Service, the latter) and have warranted of plans to convert the new place into a true 2.0 library space. They have invited me to join a brain storming session planned for the weeks after the August vacation.<\/p>\n

I cannot wait, so here are some of the things I believe should be combined into an integrated virtual working sp\"Universityace:<\/p>\n