Research Catalog

Title

Last one out turn off the lights : is this the future of American and Canadian libraries? / edited by Susan E. Cleyle, Louise M. McGillis.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Cleyle, Susan E., 1965-
• McGillis, Louise M., 1963-

Description

xix, 227 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Susan E. Cleyle and Louise M. McGillis have assembled an impressive list of contributors to examine the future of libraries in the United States and Canada and answer the question "Is it time to turn off the lights and call it a day?" Contributors were asked to think outside the box and take readers to places they might not have been. The resulting essays address five main topics: the web, library as place, pushing to the desktop, certification, and the future of associations. Last One Out Turn Off the Lights provides librarians with innovative ways to serve an information-hungry society."--Jacket.

Subject

• Internet in library reference services > Canada
• Internet in library reference services > United States
• Internet searching > Canada
• Internet searching > United States
• Reference services (Libraries) > Forecasting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: change the lightbulb or flip the switch, our choice! / Susan E. Cleyle and Louise M. McGillis -- Part 1. The tug of war between libraries and the web: who will end up in the dirt? The microwave of the reference world / Irene McDermott -- Library prophets and library pornographers: some problems that arise when we talk about libraries and the web / Stephen Good -- The library blog: serving users and staying relevant / Amanda Etches-Johnson -- Part 2. Wake up and smell the coffee: how do we reinvent the library as place? "Real" university libraries don't have neon lights / Ruth E. Kifer -- A refuge and a sanctuary: Vancouver's Carnegie Library as civic space / Paul Whitney -- Public libraries and services to students: taking up the slack in the face of budget cuts / Pat Jobb -- Part 3. The end of the world as we know it: what are the consequences of pushing to the desktop? Being all that we can be: the web as both a threat and the means of our salvation / Roy Tennant -- The challenges of our success: consequences of pushing to the desktop / John Teskey -- All or nothing at all: the consequences of pushing electronic resources to the desktop / Melody Burton -- Part 4. From librarian to cybrarian: can certification redefine us? Post-master's certification: a case for responsive education / Ernie Ingles and Allison Sivak -- Door #1: Certification. Door #2: Not! Door #3: real solutions / Alison Nussbaumer -- The certification debate: will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? / Barbara K. Stripling -- Part 5. Mixing the old with the new: how do library associations survive? Changing roles for library associations / Mary Ellen K. Davis and Helen H. Spalding -- Texas Library Association: a success story / Barry M. Bishop -- Lighting the way: can library associations shape our future? / Madeleine Lefebvre and Don Butcher -- I don't want to pay if I can't play: one new librarian's vision of library associations / Gillian Byrne.

ISBN

081085192X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004020419

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library