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 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Look at All Those Beautiful Birds Overhead! 1 -- Priorities for the Research Library Budget: A Humble Proposal 7 -- What Do We Give 'Em? And Who Are 'Em? 11 -- The Legacy of John Swan 17 -- Small Public Libraries--Challenges, Opportunities, and Irrelevancies 21 -- "Lead Me Not into Temptation to Do Good" 27 -- Our Goals and Our Programs: We're Better at Caring Than at Getting Others to Care 33 -- The Politics of Reinventing Government Libraries 39 -- Fairy Tales from the Wonderful World of Library Politics 53 -- Is Anyone Still Training the Circus Animals? 59 -- Information Intermediation: A Fancy Name for Reference Work 65 -- Library Studies or Information Management--What's in a Name? 71 -- Technology in Libraries--A Continuous Process 77 -- Educating for the Now and Future Profession 83 -- The Cost of Knowledge and the Cost of Ignorance 89 -- How Many Priorities Are We Allowed to Have--And Who Sets Them? 93 -- Never Mind Being Innovative and Effective--Just Be Nice 99 -- Smearing with a Broad Brush 105 -- The Role of Information Intermediaries and the Superhighway: Crucial, Important, Trivial, or Non-Existent? 109 -- Unity Through Diversity: We Need to Define Some Terms 121 -- Blaming the Victim--The Academic Library Version 127 -- The Perilous But Also Opportune Future for Special Librarians 131 -- Managing Within Change--Or Helping to Shape the Management of Change 137 -- The Politics of Reinventing Special Libraries 143 -- Our Strategy for Saving Libraries: Add Water to the Thin Soup 149 -- Focusing on the Trivial Is Certainly More Fun 155 -- Selecting Conference Sites for ALA 161 -- Research Library Directors and the Squandered Opportunity to Lead 167 -- Do We Want to Be Knowledge Workers? 173 -- Economic and Political Issues in Determining the Future of the Professionally Managed Library Over the Next Ten Years 179 -- Book Review 189 -- Faculty Status for Academic Librarians: The Search for the Holy Grail 193 -- Adapting Commercial Strategies to Managing Government Libraries 199 -- Our Failure to Seek, Much Less Achieve, Funding and Management Support 205 -- Doing More with Less? If We Can Do It Now, Why Were We Goofing Off Before? 221 -- Marketing As a Tool for Destabilization 225 -- Keynote Address: Fourth International Conference on Fee-Based Information Services in Libraries 231 -- Our Conflicting Responsibilities: To Our Bosses, Our Staff, and Our Profession 237 -- The Passion to Be in Fashion 241 -- Who Will Lead the Unsuspecting Lemmings Over the Cliff? 247 -- Should Leaders Want to Be Managers and Give Up All That Freedom? 257 -- Planning and Evaluation: The Endless Carousel 261 -- Embarking on the Information Superhighway While Downsizing and Outsourcing Libraries 267 -- Dangerous Misconceptions About Organizational Development of Virtual Libraries 271 -- What Is a Professional in Our Field? 281 -- Is There a Surplus of Librarians? 287 -- Library Outsourcing and Contracting: Cost-Effectiveness or Shell Game? 293 -- Organizational Change in an Era of Technological Challenges: Structuring an Environment Conducive to Learning 299 -- Library Managers Must Really Lead 313 -- Library Computers: Tools or Toys? 319 -- Book Review 323 -- The Changes in Off-Campus Education 327 -- What to Evaluate and What to Reward 333 -- Technology and the Pressures and Opportunities for Document Delivery 337 -- Public Library Reference Service--Expectations and Reality 349 -- Edmund Burke 355 -- Librarians and Information Technology: Which Is the Tail and Which Is the Dog? 357 -- Why Outsourcing Happens, and What to Do About It 371 -- Authority, Responsibility, and Delegation in Public Libraries 377 -- Is Our Mission One of Providing Only Information or Providing Knowledge? 381 -- Where Is This Profession Heading? 389.

ISBN

156308807X

LCCN

^^^00041219^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library