Hybrary - Ambient Environments for Hybrid Libraries

Abstract

The library of the future is required to be in the forefront of technology usage in order to survive the age of the cyberspace with the emerging digital libraries, which is promising every possible information at anytime from anywhere at your fingertips. By extending the physical library with ubiquitous computing technology as a gateway to the digital library world and using unified user interfaces in ambient environments, the gap between atoms and bits could be closed. This paper reports about some hybrary projects at the McLuhan Documentation Center in Luebeck.