NET EFFECTS: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet Edited by Marylaine Block

Chapter Ten: How Librarians Can Avoid Being Blind-Sided by Future Technological Change

• DLF. Use. White Paper on why libraries are changing http://www.diglib.org/use/whitepaper.htm

• First Monday http://www.firstmonday.dk/
  This peer-reviewed journal often contains articles relevant to the future of information, the internet, and libraries.

• Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html
  The librarians at the Wilton Library keep track of interesting things that libraries are using the net for.

• Library Futures Institute http://www.wpi.edu/News/Conf/LFI/webliography.html
  links to possible futures, for a conference in June, 2002

• Library Futures Quarterly http://libraryfutures.com/
  A key source. John Guscott reviews articles from library literature and futurist literature about our possible futures. Some material from the magazine is available online, but you'll want to subscribe to this

• LITA Top Technology Trends http://www.lita.org/Content/NavigationMenu/LITA/LITA_Resources_and_Services/
  Top_Technology_Trends/Top_Technology_Trends.htm
  once a year LITA's top tech experts vote on the top technology trends that will impact libraries

• OWLS Links for Librarians: Planning http://www.owls.lib.wi.us/info/links/plans.htm
  an annotated webliography of resources.
  
  
  

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