Beth Thomsett-Scott is the Head of the Engineering Library at Penn State. She is the liaison to the College of Engineering and consults with faculty, staff, and students to ensure their needs are meet through services, instructing, and collections. Beth has published in a variety of journals and presented conference sessions in the areas of website usability, mentoring and training reference staff and students, and technology. Her passion is supporting students and faculty in their education and research activities.

This book is like a time machine — it shows us the future while examining the history of today's cutting-edge products and the growing pains that came from early adopters who were brave enough to bring them into academia in an era when most patrons expected libraries to be little more than silent study spaces. The lesson: we learn best when we play.

• Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesChapter1. Introduction 2. Engaging Users with Technology at the University of Florida Libraries3.John Peace Library and the Applied Engineering and Technology Library, University of Texas at San Antonio4.Lightboard and ArcGIS and Solstice, Oh My! 5.The Holographic Landscape: 3D Modeling for the HoloLens6.Creating Ideas into Reality: Spaces and Programs that Open Up the Imagination 7.Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining Audio-Visual Edit Suites as a Learning, Teaching, and Research in an Academic Library8.A Tale of Two Initiatives: Developing Operational Models for 3D Printing and a Multimedia Production Studio in a STEM LibraryList of Contributors

Beth Thomsett-Scott is the Head of the Engineering Library at Penn State. She is the liaison to the College of Engineering and consults with faculty, staff, and students to ensure their needs are meet through services, instructing, and collections. Beth has published in a variety of journals and presented conference sessions in the areas of website usability, mentoring and training reference staff and students, and technology. Her passion is supporting students and faculty in their education and research activities.

This book is like a time machine — it shows us the future while examining the history of today's cutting-edge products and the growing pains that came from early adopters who were brave enough to bring them into academia in an era when most patrons expected libraries to be little more than silent study spaces. The lesson: we learn best when we play.

• Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesChapter1. Introduction 2. Engaging Users with Technology at the University of Florida Libraries3.John Peace Library and the Applied Engineering and Technology Library, University of Texas at San Antonio4.Lightboard and ArcGIS and Solstice, Oh My! 5.The Holographic Landscape: 3D Modeling for the HoloLens6.Creating Ideas into Reality: Spaces and Programs that Open Up the Imagination 7.Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining Audio-Visual Edit Suites as a Learning, Teaching, and Research in an Academic Library8.A Tale of Two Initiatives: Developing Operational Models for 3D Printing and a Multimedia Production Studio in a STEM LibraryList of Contributors