This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (Hardcover) by Marilyn Johnson

from nomadreader

What I didn't know, but perhaps should have inferred from the book's title (This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All) is the author, Marilyn Johnson, is not a librarian. The book isn't necessarily aimed at librarians, although I think there are things all librarians, r...

from TheDivineOomba

The book is interesting, but it wasn't quite I expected... I was hoping more for a day to day type book about how the modern library worked, instead got a book full of technology and blogs. It was interesting, and also quite informative, but I think the book focused too much on Second Life (which...

from bell7

So many people subscribe to the notion that libraries are falling by the wayside. Who needs books, they argue, when just about anything can be found on the Internet now? Marilyn Johnson explores ways in which libraries are not only continuing to be relevant in a wired world, but using technology ...

from KC9333

Library lovers have all heard the gloom and doom predictions that Google and the Internet are making libraries obsolete. Yet this author looks at many libraries and finds them not only relevant but vibrant. Her book is a fast, enjoyable read. The chapters cover many diverse topics in libraryland ...

from droether

With the question of the future of libraries on the line in the minds of some, Johnson's book is a timely work that sheds light on the wildly diverse world of librarianship. Some argue that the library is an antiquated institution that is not necessary in the world of the iPad, ebooks, and Google...