Will the library of the future be "bookless"? Will reference librarians disappear? Will information continue to double every few years? These are but some of the issues tackled by a group of curious librarians. Perhaps, like them, you too are troubled by the swift current of changes flowing through your institution. Unleashed by the erudite Martin Raish, contributors were asked to write about whatever was uppermost on their minds about today's academic libraries and librarians. The result is a constellation of opinion, expressed with intelligence, poignancy, and wit.

"...informal ruminations on the disquieting problems that threaten to change academic librarianship as we know it - primarily the escalating need to teach-critical thinking skills and information literacy to students, and the transformative effect of information technology on the profession." - Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie