Leaders Look Toward the Future

A Companion Website to Academic Librarianship

Welcome to the companion website for Academic Librarianship by Camila A. Alire and G. Edward Evans.
This site complements the book and offers you an in-depth look at the future of academic librarianship.
Here, you'll find 21 forward-looking essays, compiled by the authors and written by library leaders who represent
a cross-section of the field, from the largest institutions to specialized libraries. You can find analysis
of these essays and their implications in Chapter 16 of the book.

    Keeping Future Law Libraries Relevant
      by Barbara Bintliff
    Looking to the Future: Academic Health Care Centers and Their Libraries
      by Holly Shipp Buchanan and Brian Bunnett
    Library Consortia and the Future of Academic Libraries
      by Rick Burke
    The Twenty-First-Century College Library
      by Theresa Byrd
    The Future of Academic Libraries, or "The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration"
      by Thomas Carter
    "Ain't What It Used to Be": The Future of Academic Libraries
      by Susan C. Curzon
    Academic Library Futures
      by Joan Giesecke
    Soul Provider: Some Thoughts on the Future of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
      by Cynthia L. Henderson
    Academic Libraries Looking Forward: The Role of Schools of Library and Information Science
      by Peter Hernon
    "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Special Collections at the Crossroads
      by Michael Kelly
    The Future Is Now
      by Lynne King
    Toward Collaboration
      by John Murray
    The Opportunity of Invisibility
      by Catherine Murray-Rust
    The Future Academic Research Library: Hope/Power/Action through Primal Innovation and Radical Collaboration
      by James G. Neal
    Future Paths for Academic Libraries
      by Steve O'Connor
    Challenges for the Future of the Academic Library
      by Loretta Parham
    Academic Law Librarianship—A Look to the Future
      by Carol A. Parker
    Creating a Future: Community College Libraries
      by Carol Sinwell
    Academic Libraries: A Poly-Faced Future
      by Glenda Thornton
    The Future of Community Colleges in Our Country
      by Ninfa A. Trejo
    Core Values and Cultural Context: Reflecting on the Fundamentals
      by Patricia A. Wand
 

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