Table 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 an 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: catalogues 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 ;