Lab NEXT Opens in University of Calgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library

From U. of Calgary:

Lab NEXT offers collaborative workspaces, makerspace technologies and a range of other services such as visualization, digitization and sharing scholarship through the university’s digital repository, PRISM.
“As research becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, academic libraries must continually evolve by reimagining spaces and implementing new technologies,” explains Tom Hickerson, vice-provost (libraries and cultural resources). “Lab NEXT will play a significant role in an overarching effort to develop a new model for the role of libraries in today’s research enterprise.”
Lab NEXT brings together new and existing library services and technologies:

• Data management
• Digitization and Repository Services
• GIS
• Makerspace including 3D printing services
• Metadata services
• Virtual reality/one button studio
• Consultation and project rooms
  
• Display areas for large-scale visualization
• Consultation “pods,” high-end computers and a teaching screen

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