Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Will the library of the future be bookless? Will reference librarians disappear? Will information continue to double every few years? These are but some of the issues tackled by a group of curious librarians. Perhaps, like them, you too are troubled by the swift current of changes flowing through your institution. Unleashed by the erudite Martin Raish, contributors were asked to write about whatever was uppermost on their minds about today's academic libraries and librarians. The result is a constellation of opinion, expressed with intelligence, poignancy, and wit.
Synopsis
What does the future hold for academic libraries and librarians? These nineteen essays offer some interesting observations and opinions about the problems and issues that are changing academic librarianship as we know it.
Table of Contents
Slipping sanctuaries /Amanda Cain --Moving beyond the "re" generation : making libraries and librarians count in the 21st century /Celia E. Rabinowitz --Reference librarians as wild animals /David Isaacson --Place and space : libraries and the cartography of knowledge /Barbara Fister --Ketchup has always been a vegetable /Margaret Law,Randall Reichardt --Creating that teachable moment /Ilene F. Rockman --Abookless society : who says? /Diana D. Shonrock --All we need is a fast horse : riding information literacy into the academy /William B. Badke --Information literacy as liberal education : academic libraries, the teaching librarian, and collection marketing /Douglas M. Stehle --From library-college to information literacy : an evolving strategy for educating library users /Jon R. Hufford --Plexus and nexus, from Ramelli to Zappa and beyond /Fred Nesta --From custodian to navigator : the amazing heroic journal of the new information specialist /William B. Badke --Giving away the keys to the kingdom /Rebecca S. Graves --Shining some light on the monster under the bed : a closer look at the "doubling of knowledge" /Martin Raish --Using analogies to teach the research process /Monica Ollendorff --On specialization /Kerry Smith --To (pre)serve and protect /Tony Amodeo --Will time tame this tyrant, too? /Martin Raish.