Research Catalog

Title

Librarianship--quo vadis? : opportunities and dangers as we face the new millennium / Herbert S. White.

Author

White, Herbert S.

Publication

Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 2000.

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 399 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Library science > Forecasting
• Library science > United States > Forecasting
• Information science > Forecasting
• Information science > United States > Forecasting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Look at All Those Beautiful Birds Overhead! -- Priorities for the Research Library Budget: A Humble Proposal -- What Do We Give 'Em? And Who Are 'Em? -- The Legacy of John Swan -- Small Public Libraries - Challenges, Opportunities, and Irrelevancies -- "Lead Me Not into Temptation to Do Good" -- Our Goals and Our Programs: We're Better at Caring Than at Getting Others to Care -- The Politics of Reinventing Government Libraries -- Fairy Tales from the Wonderful World of Library Politics -- Is Anyone Still Training the Circus Animals? -- Information Intermediation: A Fancy Name for Reference Work -- Library Studies on Information Management - What's in a Name? -- Technology in Libraries - A Continuous Process -- Educating for the Now and Future Profession -- The Cost of Knowledge and the Cost of Ignorance -- How Many Priorities Are We Allowed to Have - And Who Sets Them? -- Never Mind Being Innovative and Effective - Just Be Nice -- Smearing with a Broad Brush --
• The Role of Information Intermediaries and the Superhighway: Crucial, Important, Trivial, or Non-Existent? -- Unity Though Diversity: We Need to Define Some Terms -- Blaming the Victim - The Academic Library Version -- The Perilous But Also Opportune Future for Special Librarians -- Managing Within Change - Or Helping to Shape the Management of Change -- The Politics of Reinventing Special Libraries -- Our Strategy for Saving Libraries: Add Water to the Thin Soup -- Focusing on the Trivial Is Certainly More Fun -- Selecting Conference Sites for ALA -- Research Library Directors and the Squandered Opportunity to Lead -- Do We Want to Be Knowledge Workers? -- Economic and Political Issues in Determining the Future of the Professionally Managed Library Over the Next Ten Years -- Faculty Status for Academic Librarians: The Search for the Holy Grail -- Adapting Commercial Strategies to Managing Government Libraries -- Our Failure to Seek, Much Less Achieve, Funding and Management Support --
• Doing More with Less? If We Can Do It Now, Why Were We Goofing Off Before? -- Marketing As a Tool for Destabilization -- Keynote Address: Fourth International Conference on Fee-Based Information Services in Libraries -- Our Conflicting Responsibilities: To Our Bosses, Our Staff, and Our Profession -- The Passion to Be in Fashion -- Who Will Lead the Unsuspecting Lemmings Over the Cliff? -- Should Leaders Want to Be Managers and Give Up All That Freedom? -- Planning and Evaluation: The Endless Carousel -- Embarking on the Information Superhighway While Downsizing and Outsourcing Libraries -- Dangerous Misconceptions About Organizational Development of Virtual Libraries -- What Is a Professional in Our Field? -- Is There a Surplus of Librarians? -- Library Outsourcing and Contracting: Cost-Effectiveness or Shell Game? -- Organizational Change in an Era of Technological Challenges: Structuring an Environment Conducive to Learning -- Library Managers Must Really Lead --
• Library Computers: Tools or Toys? -- The Changes in Off-Campus Education -- What to Evaluate and What to Reward -- Technology and the Pressures and Opportunities for Document Delivery -- Public Library Reference Service - Expectations and Reality -- Edmund Burke -- Librarians and Information Technology: Which Is the Tail and Which Is the Dog? -- Why Outsourcing Happens, and What to Do About It -- Authority, Responsibility, and Delegation in Public Libraries -- Is Our Mission One of Providing Only Information or Providing Knowledge? -- Where Is This Profession Heading?

ISBN

156308807X

LCCN

00041219

OCLC

• ocm44131762
• SCSB-14270066

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries