Record Nr.

UNINA9910812371403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Chicago, [Illinois] : , : ALA Editions, , 2014
©2014

ISBN

0-8389-9688-4

0-8389-1207-9

0-8389-9686-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

022/.3

Soggetti

Library planning

Libraries - Forecasting

Public services (Libraries) - Forecasting

Organizational change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Planning Our Future Libraries: Blueprints for 2025; Contents; Introduction; Embracing Participation; Reimagining Spaces; Building New Infrastructure; Leading for the Future; References; Part 1: Embracing Participation; Chapter 1: Redesigning Library Services Again: Revising Buckland's Manifesto; Buckland's Assumption and Three Types of Libraries; Situating Redesigning Library Services; The Library of 2025 versus the 100-Year Library; The Participatory Library; References; Chapter 2: Radical Trust: A User-Librarian Shared Model; Visions of Radical Trust

Advocates of Radical Trust for LibrariesScenario One: The Library 2025 without Radical Trust, or Resistance Is Futile; Scenario Two: The Library 2025 with Radical Trust, or the Athenaeum; Conclusion; References; Part 2: Reimagining Spaces; Chapter 3: Meaningful Space in a Digital Age; When Did My "Stuff" Become Content?; The Projection of Self through Our Spaces; Creating Meaningful Spaces; Narrative Design; Praxis: Library 2025; References; Chapter 4: The Faculty Commons: Reimagining the Intellectual Heart of Campus; The Evolution of

Academic Library Buildings and Services

We Are More Than Books Aren't We?Students in the Library: From Adjustment to Transformation; The Library as a Platform for Faculty Innovation; A Focus on Teaching and Research; Spaces That Are Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts; References; Chapter 5: Free-Range Librarianship: Public Librarian as Park Ranger; Building a Model of "Everywhere"; Park Rangers and the Information Ecosystem; A Free-Range Librarianship Model; Conclusion; References; Part 3: Building New Infrastructure; Chapter 6: The Constant Innovator: A New Organizational Mode of Experimentation

A Call to Action: Taking Charge of Our Professional DestinyGoogle: A Model for Managing Innovation; The Practicalities: How All This Will Work; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: The Future of Funding: A Proposal for a National Library Card; Realign by 2025; Establishing a National Library Card; Embedding Libraries in the Tax Code; Social Impact Bonds and Libraries; A Public-Private Trust for Libraries; Reengaging First Use; References; Part 4: The Global Future; Chapter 8: International School Libraries: Current Status and Future Vision; Case Study One: Nepal; Case Study Two: Honduras

Case Study Three: BrazilThe International School Library Future; Getting to the International School Library 2025; References; Appendix: Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto (Abridged); Introduction; Three Types of Library; Reinventing the Library; Organization and Implementation; The Challenge; Author's Note; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This thought-provoking collection will challenge librarians at every kind of institution to start planning today for the library of tomorrow.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694033003321

Titolo

Occupational and environmental health surveillance of deployed forces : tracking toxic casualties : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, July 19, 2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 214 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Health aspects - United States

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Veterans - Diseases - United States