Musings, Meanderings, And Monsters, Too
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...
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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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Monsters in Our ClosetsCh. 1Academic Librarians Offer the Crucial Human Element in Online Scholarship1Ch. 2Slipping Sanctuaries9Ch. 3Moving Beyond the "Re" Generation: Making Libraries and Librarians Count in the Twenty-First Century20Ch. 4Reference Librarians As Wild Animals31Ch. 5Place and Space: Libraries and the Cartography of Knowledge41Ch. 6Ketchup Has Always Been a Vegetable51Ch. 7Creating That Teachable Moment58Ch. 8A Bookless Society - Who Says?65Ch. 9All We Need is a Fast Horse: Riding Information Literacy into the Academy75Ch. 10Information Literacy As Liberal Education: Academic Libraries, the Teaching Librarian, and Collection Marketing89Ch. 11From Library-College to Information Literacy: An Evolving Strategy for Educating Library Users106Ch. 12Plexus and Nexus: From Ramelli to Zappa and Beyond117Ch. 13From Custodian to Navigator: The Amazing Heroic Journey of the New Information Specialist124Ch. 14Giving Away the Keys to the Kingdom137Ch. 15Shining Some Light on the Monster under the Bed: A Closer Look at the "Doubling of Knowledge"145Ch. 16Libraries As Gardens: Using Analogies to Teach the Research Process157Ch. 17On Specialization166Ch. 18To (Pre) Serve and Protect173Ch. 19Will Time Tame This Tyrant, Too?182Index189Contributors191
\ College & Research Libraries News...informal ruminations on the disquieting problems that threaten to change academic librarianship as we know it - primarily the escalating need to teach-critical thinking skills and information literacy to students, and the transformative effect of information technology on the profession.\ \
