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Leading the 21st Century Academic Library: Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures will explore the new roles and directions academic libraries are taking in the 21st century as a consequence of visionary leadership in exploring diverse futures.
List of contents
Preface
Kevin L. Smith
Introduction
Bradford Lee Eden
Chapter 1: Five essential skills for the 21st-century librarian
Melvin D. Davis
Chapter 2: What will libraries be when they grow up?: how the innovations of technology can help us imagine the future
Samantha Schmehl Hines
Chapter 3: The biology of librarian leadership
Sarah Brown
Chapter 4: The library-technology interchange: new roles for academic librarians in the 21st century
Anna Fidgeon and Laurie Borchard
Chapter 5: Beyond buildings: a design-based approach to future librarianship
Rachel Ivy Clarke
Chapter 6: The university library's evolution: book warehouse or platform for student research and learning
Carl Antonucci and Sharon Clapp
Chapter 7: Dealing with workplace complexities and engaging staff: towards an engagement toolbox
Martin D. House
Chapter 8: Serendipity and the Semantic Web: catalogs of the future
Autumn Faulkner
Chapter 9: The dawn of the e-science librarian
Terry Cottrell and Gail Gawlik
Chapter 10: Media librarianship in the digital age
Dorothea J. Coiffe
Chapter 11: Knowledge organization in biobanks: a management information perspective
Lidiane Carvalho and Rodrigo Bozzetti
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Bradford Lee Eden
Summary
Leading the 21st Century Academic Library: Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures will explore the new roles and directions academic libraries are taking in the 21st century as a consequence of visionary leadership in exploring diverse futures.
