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

✍ Scribed by Rachel Singer Gordon

Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 281
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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. In addition to a preface by the editor, the book's foreword by Stephen Abram and 16 chapters feature insights and opinions from these library leaders, bloggers, and futurists: * Lori Bell * Steven J. Bell * John Blyberg * Robert Bocher * Daniel Chudnov * Jill Emery * Meredith G. Farkas * Megan K. Fox * Beth Gallaway * Joseph Janes * David Lee King * Jenny Levine * Tom Peters * Dorothea Salo * John D. Shank * Michael Stephens * Rhonda B. Trueman * Jessamyn West * Alane Wilson 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.

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