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Library 2020
Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library
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2013
Summary
Thinking about the future of libraries, librarianship and the work librarians do is as old as libraries themselves. (No doubt seminars were organized by the Alexandria Librarians Association on the future of the scroll and what to do about the rising barbarian tide.) At no time in our memory, though, have these discussions and conversations been so profound and critical.
Here one of today’s leading thinkers and speakers about the future of libraries brings together 30 leaders from all types of libraries and from outside librarianship to describe their vision of what the library will be in 2020. Contributors including Stephen Abram, Susan Hildreth, Marie Radford, Clifford Lynch, and Library Journal’s The Annoyed Librarian were asked to describe the “library of 2020,” in whatever terms they wanted, either a specific library or situation or libraries in general. They were told: “be bold, be inspirational, be hopeful, be true, be provocative, be realistic, be depressing, be light-hearted, be thoughtful, be fun…be yourself, and for heaven’s sake, don’t be boring.” Not that they could be.
Broadly representative of important perspectives and aspects within the profession as well as featuring important voices beyond the professional realm, Library 2020 presents thought-provoking and illuminating visions from many points of view. It is both required reading for library leaders and trustees as well as an ideal supplemental text for LIS classes looking at the future of the profession.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8714-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8715-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
161
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access
1 The Annoyed Librarian No access
2 Kristin Fontichiaro No access
3 Elisabeth A. Jones No access
4 Clifford A. Lynch No access
5 Sarah Houghton No access
6 Stephen Abram No access
7 Courtney Greene No access
8 Marie L. Radford No access
9 James W. Rosenzweig No access
10 Michael Crandall No access
11 Molly Raphael No access
12 Lynn Silipigni Connaway No access
13 Marcellus Turner No access
14 Ruth Faklis No access
15 Susan Hildreth No access
16 Stacey A. Aldrich and Jarrid P. Keller No access
