Table of Contents

Introduction
Identifying Emerging Technologies by George Machovec
Implications of New and Emerging Technologies on Reference Service by Johannah Sherrer
Implications for Bibliographic Instruction by Harvey Sager
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Library Clientele by John C. Tyson
People, Organizations, and Information Technology: Facing the Millennium by Delmus E. Williams
Preparing for the Technological Future by Charles B. Lowry
Impact on the Library School Curriculum and Methods of Teaching by Thomas D. Walker
Information Transfer, Information Technology, and the New Information Professional by Herbert K. Achleitner
Impact on the International Development of Librarianship by Charles Wm. Conaway
Index

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Identifies emerging technologies and assesses their impact on reference service and bibliographic instruction.

About the Author

GARY M. PITKIN is Dean of Libraries at the University of Northern Colorado. He has presented more than 35 papers and seminars and serves as an international consultant on information management and technology, library automation and networking, operational costs and management, and organizational change and behavior. He has authored or edited over a dozen books and articles related to higher education, academic librarianship, and information management and serves as the editor of Technical Services Quarterly.

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?For those familiar with these issues, it is a good book to have in hand when making the case for expenditures and changes in a library services to non-libary administrators.?-Journal of the American Society for Information Science

"For those familiar with these issues, it is a good book to have in hand when making the case for expenditures and changes in a library services to non-libary administrators."-Journal of the American Society for Information Science