1st Edition
Repackaging Libraries for Survival Climbing Out of the Box
1. Introduction, Sul Lee, Dean, University Libraries, The University of Oklahoma
2. "Climbing Out of the Box and Into the Cloud: Building Web-Scale for Libraries"
Jay Jordan, President and CEO, OCLC
3. "Why Libraries Persist: Hermits, Clouds, Confucius, Bubbles, and Hortense Foglesong", Dennis Dillon, Associate Director for Research Services, University of Texas, Austin Libraries
4. "Year 2 of the "Great Recession": Surviving the Present by Building the Future", Charles B. Lowry, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries
5. "Finding the Right Metaphor: Restructuring, Realigning, and Repackaging Today's Research Libraries", Joan Giesecke, Dean of Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.
6. "Advancing From Kumbaya to Radical Collaboration: Redefining the Future Research Library", James G. Neal Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University Libraries.
7. "Repackaging the Library: What Do Faculty Think?", Kevin Guthrie, President, Ithaka, Ross Housewright, Research Analyst, Ithaka
8. "Times of Crisis Accelerate Inevitable Change", Allen Powell, President, EBSCO Information Services
9. "From Surviving to Thriving", Carla J. Stoffle, Dean of Libraries, University of Arizona Libraries, Cheryl Cuillier, Special Assistant to the Dean, University of Arizona Libraries
Biography
Sul H. Lee is Peggy V. Helmerich Chair and Dean of the University of Oklahoma Libraries, a position he has held since 1978. His academic background is in political science, international relations and library and information science and has authored more than two dozen books in the field of librarianship.
