Liminality Rules

I had the opportunity today to take part in a meeting with some folks from ITS and the Libraries and talk about areas in common and how we can work together. Areas such as repository development come to mind because both of us have a sets of expertise that are very complementary. I started thinking about the Knowledge Commons that the Library is creating and the Digital Commons that ITS is creating and how both of those initiatives are opportunities to enhance teaching and learning and to increase our relevancy to our students. We're trying to create inviting and engaging learning spaces and also to say to the students, "we'll come to you" by setting up reference areas in Smeal and other locations and to also bring subject guides and the CAT searching to Facebook and into other Web 2.0 environments. There certainly is, as my friend Barbara says, no end to the good work we can do here.