Information Tomorrow : Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries

Contents Foreword/Stephen Abram. Preface. I. Formats and functions 1. The mobile age/Megan K. Fox. 2. The future of FLOSS in libraries/Daniel Chudnov. 3. Mouse bites cat Taking back the twenty first century ILS/John Blyberg. 4. Six years too late Chasing our destiny in the electronic publishing age/Jill Emery. 5. Academic libraries as scholarly publishers/Dorothea Salo. II. Change and challenges 6. Game on Meeting the needs of gamers in the library/Beth Gallaway. 7. Thriving in the age of Google/Joseph Janes. 8. Libraries and the read/write web/Michael Stephens. 9. Libraries and privacy/Robert Bocher. 10. An experience to remember Building positive experience on library web sites/David Lee King. III. 2.0 And Beyond 11. Library 2.0/Jenny Levine. 12. Get a second life Libraries in virtual worlds/Rhonda B. Trueman Tom Peters and Lori Bell. 13. Librarianship + Technology + Instructional Design= Blended Librarian/John D. Shank and Steven J. Bell. 14. Training librarians for the future Integrating technology into LIS education/Meredith G. Farkas. 15. Technophobia technostress and technorealism/Jessamyn West. 16. Reading tea leaves One past many futures/Alane Wilson. Appendix Web Sites. About the contributors. About the editor. Index. In Information Tomorrow Rachel Singer Gordon brings together 20 of today's top thinkers on the intersections between libraries and technology. They address various ways in which new technologies are impacting library services and share their ideas for using technology to meet patrons where they are. Information Tomorrow offers an engaging provocative and wide ranging discussion for systems librarians library IT workers library managers and administrators and anyone working with or interested in technology in libraries. 258 pp.…