Research Catalog

Title

Planning our future libraries : blueprints for 2025 / Kim Leeder & Eric Frierson, editors.

Publication

Chicago : American Library Association, An Imprint of the American Library Association, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leeder, Kim
• Frierson, Eric

Description

xiii, 130 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The rapid pace of change over the past thirty years has created an environment of instability. What has it meant for libraries? Budgets slashed, branches closed, and missions challenged. This collection of essays views a future focusing on innovative qualities and achievable projections that you can build on to meet the needs of your community.

Subject

• Library planning
• Libraries > Forecasting
• Public services (Libraries) > Forecasting
• Organizational change
• Bibliothek
• Organisationsentwicklung
• Organisationswandel
• Prognose

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Redesigning library services again : revisiting Buckland's manifesto / Brett Bonfield -- Radical trust : a user-librarian shared model / Dave Harmeyer -- Meaningful space in a digital age / Ben Malczewski -- The faculty commons : reimagining the intellectual heart of campus / Krisellen Maloney -- Free range librarianship : public librarian as park ranger / Hugh Rundle -- The constant innovator : a new organizational mode of experimentation / Megan Hodge -- The future of funding : a proposal for a national library card / John Chrastka -- International school libraries : current status and future vision / Lesley Farmer.

ISBN

• 9780838912072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0838912079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780838996867 (e-PDF) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780838996881 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780838996874 (Kindle) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013028246

OCLC

• 857141238
• SCSB-12761547

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library