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Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and ChangeBalanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change (book)

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A library system that stands still is unbalanced and headed for trouble. A library staff obsessed with Hot New Things and aiming for new users at the expense of familiar services and existing patrons is unbalanced and headed for trouble. Very few libraries fall into either extreme, but sometimes it seems as though we’re urged toward one extreme. This book grew, indirectly, out of discussions surrounding and emanating from “Library 2.0”—the ideas, the set of initiatives and the term itself. I believe those discussions have shifted toward more balanced approaches. This book aims to develop and continue those discussions. It is divided into three sections, not including the first and last two chapters. Three chapters discuss the library and its community. Four chapters discuss barriers to change. The remainder of the book discusses positive aspects of change.

Cites & Insights 9: 2009Cites & Insights 9: 2009 (book)

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Cites & Insights 9: 2009 includes all 13 issues of the ejournal--the largest volume to date. The paperback includes a contents list with the articles in each issue. Special features in this volume include the heart of three books, issue-length essays on the Google Books settlement and library access to scholarship and an updated discursive glossary.

Cites & Insights 8: 2008Cites & Insights 8: 2008 (book)

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All twelve issues of Cites & Insights Volume 8 in one convenient paperback--with a wraparound color cover (taken in Scotland). Differs from individual issues only in that photos are converted to grayscale. The price has been set based on the supposition that what few copies are sold are specifically to supporters of C&I and C&I Books.

The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008 (book)

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Liblogs--blogs written by library people, as opposed to official library blogs--provide some of today's most interesting and useful library literature. This book offers a broad look at English-language liblogs as they are and as they've changed between 2007 and 2008. The book includes more than 600 blogs with detailed analysis of 27 metrics for 2007 and 2008 and changes from 2007 to 2008--and, for 143 of them, 2006 as well. Through tables, charts and text, we explore the liblog landscape.

Cites & Insights 6: 2006Cites & Insights 6: 2006 (book)

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Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large (ISSN 1534-0937) is an ejournal of libraries, policy, technology and media, written and produced by Walt Crawford. This bound version of Volume 6 includes all 14 issues, including 'Library 2.0 and "Library 2.0."'. Exclusive to the print edition: A preface including details on what's happened to roughly one-third of the blogs discussed in "Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle."

Cites & Insights 7: 2007Cites & Insights 7: 2007 (book)

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Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large (ISSN 1534-0937) is an ejournal of libraries, policy, technology and media, written and produced by Walt Crawford. This bound version of Volume 7 includes all 13 issues and the volume index--but also the ephemeral Cites on a Plane, the phantom edition--38 pages, mostly reprints but including the special "Library 2.0 for People with Short Attention Spans," MSWord's autogenerated 10% summary of one full issue and one half-issue essay from Volume 6. (Cites on a Plane is not indexed, and is not available except in this print edition.)