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Last One Out Turn Off the Lights

. Ed(S): Cleyle, Susan E.; McGillis, Louise M.

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Description for Last One Out Turn Off the Lights Paperback. This collection of thought-provoking essays challenges librarians to consider the future of the profession, particularly as it relates to the Web, the library as place, delivering services to the desktop, certification, and the future of professional associations. Editor(s): Cleyle, Susan E.; McGillis, Louise M. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 335.
Libraries in the United States and Canada are facing similar challenges to their futures. Editors Susan Cleyle and Louise McGillis have pulled together an impressive list of contributors to look at the future of the profession and answer the question: is it time to turn off the lights and call it a day? Essays challenge the reader on five different topics: the Web, library as place, pushing to the desktop, certification, and the future of associations. Contributors were asked to think outside the box and take readers to places they may not have been before thus providing both LIS students ... Read more

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Format

Paperback

Publication date

2005

Publisher

Scarecrow Press United States

Number of pages

248

Condition

New

Number of Pages

248

Place of Publication

Lanham, MD, United States

ISBN

9780810851924

SKU

V9780810851924

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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days

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About . Ed(S): Cleyle, Susan E.; McGillis, Louise M.

Susan Cleyle is an Associate University Librarian with Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has written and spoken on a variety of topics that will affect the profession both today and tomorrow. Louise McGillis is an Information Services Librarian with Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University in Corner Brook Newfoundland. Louise's expertise is in the area of user preferences and ... Read more

Reviews for Last One Out Turn Off the Lights

Each essay in the book offers a different perspective on how to get services to users—all those nonusers and lapsed users who have fled to the Internet, and even our fellow professionals and paraprofessionals. Some are more practical, 'how-to' articles; others are thoughtful pieces on the roles of libraries and how we as librarians can move forward and yet also ... Read more'preserve what is good.'
College & Research Libraries, Vol. 67, No. 6 (November 2006)
The essays provide a wonderful mix of the philosophical and the practical. Ultimately, Last One Out Turn Off the Lights provides a re-affirmation of the value of libraries and librarians, provided we are determined to figure out how to best 'serve an information-hungry society.'
Info Career Trends
...very timely...It should be read by librarians and library workers in all library settings, and added to any library's collection.
Public Services Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2/3 (2006)
...this collection makes for stimulating discussion and consciousness-raising professional reading. The essays are tightly structured and succinct in presenting and discussing the state of the profession. Highly recommended for those in supervisory positions within public and academic libraries as well as library association leaders.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring 2007)
...full of questions...universal for all library and information professionals at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Library Management, Vol. 27, No. 9 (2006)
Editors Susan E. Cleyle and Louise M. McGillis invited 16 essayists to speculate about the role of libraries in the future. In Last One Out Turn Off the Lights: Is This the Future of American and Canadian Libraries? forecasts are grouped into five main areas: the Web, library as place, pushing to the desktop, certification, and the future of library associations. Among the essayists are Roy Tennant, who evaluates the Web as both a threat and a salvation for the profession; and Barbara K. Stripling, who addresses the certification debate.
American Libraries
Sixteen essays from library professionals and academics consider the future of U.S. and Canadian libraries in a world where alternative sources of information abound. Five main topics are addressed: competition from the Web, the library as place, the consequences of pushing electronic resources to the desktop, certification issues, and the future of library associations.
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