Planning Our Future Libraries Blueprints for 2025

• Other Authors: Leeder, Kim (Editor), Frierson, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Manuscript Book
• Published: Chicago American Library Association, An Imprint of the American Library Association 2014
• Subjects: Organizational change; Public services (Libraries) > Forecasting; Libraries > Forecastin; Library planning > Forecasting
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In an information environment where the only constant is change, many wonder where libraries are headed. This edited collection brings together library leaders with some of the brightest new minds in the profession to envision the future of libraries. Drawing from their personal experiences, they br...

Table of 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.