Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction
1	A Brief History of Public Librarianship	1
2	The Values of the Past	6
3	The Political, Economic, and Cultural Environments and the Public Library as "Place"	17
4	The Library Environment	39
5	People and Libraries	52
6	Public Library Support Groups and Users	83
7	Preservation in Public Libraries	95
8	Technology and Libraries	103
9	The Technology: Will the end Justify the Means?	124
10	Technology and Services for the Special Population	135
11	Sources of Funding for Public Libraries	150
12	The Future is Now: Will Public Libraries Survive?	180
Appendix	Outlook for Gale Research/Library Journal "Libraries of the Year" and Other Selected Libraries in the Twenty-First Century
	Chicago Public Library	205
	Appleton Public Library	224
	Atlanta-Fulton Public Library	231
	Austin Public Library: 1993 Library of the Year	236
	The Enoch Pratt Free Library and Cybrary	240
	Brooklyn Public Library	250
	Broward County Library: 1996 Library of the Year	254
	Brown County Library: 1994 Library of the Year	260
	Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County: 1995 Library of the Year	264
	Kalamazoo Public Library: 1994 Special Mention Library of the Year	272
	The New York Public Library	278
	Redwood City Public Library: 1992 Library of the Year	282
	San Francisco Public Library	286
	Index	293