Last One Out Turn Off the Lights

Susan Cleyle is an Associate University Librarian with Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has written and spoken on a variety of topics that will affect the profession both today and tomorrow.Louise McGillis is an Information Services Librarian with Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University in Corner Brook Newfoundland. Louise's expertise is in the area of user preferences and usage statistics, two areas of grave importance to the future of successful libraries.

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 Introduction: Change the Lightbulb or Flip the Switch - Our Choice!Part 4 Part 1: The Tug of War between Libraries and the Web: Who Will End Up in the Dirt?Chapter 5 1 The Microwave of the Reference WorldChapter 6 2 Library Prophets and Library Pornographers: Some Problems That Arise When We Talk about Libraries and the WebChapter 7 3 The Library Blog: Serving Users and Staying RelevantPart 8 Part 2: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: How Do We Reinvent the Library as Place?Chapter 9 4 "Real" University Libraries Don't Have Neon LightsChapter 10 5 A Refuge and a Sanctuary: Vancouver's Carnegie Library as Civic SpaceChapter 11 6 Public Libraries and Services to Students: Taking Up the Slack in the Face of Budget CutsPart 12 Part 3: The End of the World as We Know It: What Are the Consequences of Pushing to the Desktop?Chapter 13 7 Being All We Can Be: The Web as Both a Threat and the Means of Our SalvationChapter 14 8 The Challenges of Our Success: Consequences of Pushing to the DesktopChapter 15 9 All or Nothing at All: The Consequences of Pushing Electronic Resources to the DesktopPart 16 Part 4: From Librarian to Cybrarian: Can Certification Redefine Us?Chapter 17 10 Post-Master's Certification: A Case for Responsive EducationChapter 18 11 Door #1: Certification. Door #2: Not! Door #3: Real SolutionsChapter 19 12 The Certification Debate: Will You, Won't You, Will You, Won't You, Will You Join the Dance?Part 20 Part 5: Mixing the Old with the New: How Do Library Associations Survive?Chapter 21 13 Changing Roles for Library AssociationsChapter 22 14 Texas Library Association: A Success StoryChapter 23 15 Lighting the Way: Can Library Associations Shape Our Future?Chapter 24 16 I Don't Wanna Pay If I Can't Play: One New Librarian's Vision of Library AssociationsPart 25 EpiloguePart 26 About the Editors and Contributors

Each essay in the book offers a different perspective on how to get services to users—all those nonusers and lapsed users who have fled to the Internet, and even our fellow professionals and paraprofessionals. Some are more practical, 'how-to' articles; others are thoughtful pieces on the roles of libraries and how we as librarians can move forward and yet also 'preserve what is good.'