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mm. Port is a digital research commons located in

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Torgersen Bridge. The space is open

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to anyone with a valid Hokie passport. There are

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several computers with geospatial, statistical visualization, and text analysis software

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preinstalled.,There is also a meeting space

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for classes, small groups and seminars. 

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Port offers tutorials and guidance on how to use their

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software to suit your needs. Here we see a

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demonstration of Adobe Photoshop's puppet feature. Students

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can use the visualization software to build and integrate tools

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such as a water sanitation map or media locator.

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Libraries are going through some pretty significant transformations right now

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and this is really at a global scale driven by

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collections. A lot of our collections are moving from

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print to digital. And this opens up by part

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of that is that it opens up spaces, we

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can get back to users get back to students and

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faculty. So we spent a lot of time studying

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what do these spaces need to be and the beyond

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wireless, beyond electricity. The attribute that keeps coming

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back over and over again is variety. We need

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a variety of spaces for a variety of different tasks

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that students in and that we have and you know

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, we spend a lot of time thinking about the

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environment that we want to create and the environment really

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sets the stage for the types of behaviors, the

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types of activities, the types of perceptions uh,

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that can occur in that, in that area.

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And if you, if you take, for example

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, a group who is going to brainstorm, they

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need a different type of environment than a group that

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is uh writing a paper or developing a website or

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rehearsing a talk same thing with individuals. If you

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have someone who's, who's doing coding or design work

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, it's different from someone who needs space to,

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to read a book or prepare for a test and

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that kind of thing. So really what we're kind

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of starting to see is is the library is this

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sort of this vast ecosystem and that's where report comes

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in as as one of those destinations in that ecosystem

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. And what's cool about port is that it has

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flexibility to be a lot of different things, it

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can be a consultation space, it can be a

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studio space, it can be a lab, it

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can be a multimedia productivity space and that's really what

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the keys that we're looking at. It's a place

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to sort of explore. It's a case to dabble

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. Um it's a place to sort of discover and

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and sort of share and collaborate and and really it's

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it's still in its early stages and we're trying to

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give it room sort of evolved to grow and to

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figure out what port needs to become so