Inventing the Future: Information Services for a New Millennium

by Stan A. Hannah, Michael H. Harris

Overview

Inventing the Future: Information services for a New Millenium is a sequel to Harris and Hannah's 1998 book Into the Future. In this book they move beyond the rhetorical contests about the future of the library and turban their attention to the more prosaic but vital task of managing our ever more complex and constantly changing libraries. The pages in this book present a blueprint that will guide us in the re-visioning of library and information services, allowing us to remain true to our inherited legacy while looking insistently for innovative and effective ways of inventingour future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567504507
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/22/1999
Series:	Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies, and Services
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Alexandrian Library Burbant Again. Paradise Lost or Paradigm Found? Crossing the Postindustrial Divide
Organizing for Change: The Need for the Learning Organization
Envisioning the Future: The Need for a Shared Vision
Libraries and the Monumental Weight of History: Old Visions, New Challenges
Toward the Information Future: Libraries as Knowledge Bases
The New Alexandrian Library: Libraries and Information Management
References
Author Index
Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

The book is highly readable, and it pulls no punches when it describes what librarians need to do to survive. . . . For libraries starting to deal with change, this book is required reading . . . [it] raises issues that librarians might not be comfortable addressing.” —College & Research Libraries

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