Libraries and Multimedia in the Digital Age

Abstract

In the mid 1990s the Arts Institute identified the need to build a new Library combining the traditional features of a Library with a high number (for the size of the college) of computers and to make it an interactive learning centre. This was just before the days of e-learning . The new Library opened in 1998, but we have learned almost as much since then as before the opening. The Library has been noteworthy for the way in which it has drawn together staff from different disciplines within the Arts Institute to work together, especially within the fields of library and IT. The conjunction has been of the nature of collaboration rather than merger.