“Glimpses of the Future” – D. Cossey
References/Resources (June 2006)
Basbanes, Nicholas A. Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture. HarperCollins Books, 2003. ISBN 0-06019-695-5.
Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History. W. W. Norton and Company, 2003. ISBN 0-393-02029-0
Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information. HarvardBusinessSchool Press, 2000. ISBN 0-87584-762-5. Website at some of the chapters online). See also Brown’s website
Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. YaleUniversity Press, 2001. ISBN 0-300-08809-4
Dickson, Paul. “On Libraries, Learning, and Loving Both: A valentine to libraries from an ardent admirer” Threshold, Winter 2004, pages 10-12. (look in archive of Threshold for the Winter 2004 issue)
Droge, Edward F., Jr. Your Intelligence Makeover: An Easy Way to Learn All You Need to Know. Free Press, 2005. ISBN-10. 0-7432-7062-2.
Duderstadt, James J., Daniel E. Atkins and Douglas van Houweling. Higher Education in the Digital Age: Technology Issues and Strategies for AmericanColleges and Universities. American Council on Education, Praeger Series on Higher Education, 2002. ISBN 1-57356-520-2.
Fickinger, Rob and Brian Jepson. T-Mobile Hotspot: A Guide to Getting Unwired at Borders. O’Reilly and Associates, 2004. [free at Border’s]
Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. ISBN-10: 0-374-29288-4.
Furman, Laura and Elinore Standard, editors. Bookworms: Great writers and readers celebrate reading. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1997. ISBN 0-7867-0395-4
Herrington, Jack D. Podcasting Hacks: Tips and Tools for Blogging Out Loud. O’Reilly, 2005. ISBN 0-596-10066-3.
Lewis, Michael. next: the future just happened. W. W. Norton and Company, 2001. ISBN 0-393-02037-1
Lewis, Michael. The New New Thing. Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0-1402-9646-8
Linenberger, Michael. Seize the work Day: Using the Tablet PC to Take Total Control of Your Work and Meeting Day. New Academy Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0-9749304-0-7.
Lynch, Murray, Springsteen, Karis, Callison, Goodman. “The Future of Libraries: Six perspectives on how libraries, librarians, and library patrons will adapt to changing times.” Threshold, Winter 2004, pages 13-17. (look in archive of Threshold for the Winter 2004 issue)
Manguel, Alberto. History of Reading. Viking, 1996. ISBN 0-670-84302-4
Marcum, Deanna and Amy Friedlander. “Keepers of the Crumbling Culture: What Digital Preservation Can Learn from Library History.” D-Lib Magazine, May 2003.
National Endowment for the Arts. “Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America.” Research Division Report #46, June 2004. This report is available at
Negroponte, Nicholas. being digital. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. ISBN 0-679-43919-6
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Technology to Culture. Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN 0-679-74540-8
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books. Beacon Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8070-7083-1
Shapiro, Carl and Hal R. Varian. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy.HarvardBusinessSchool Press, 1999. ISBN 0-87584-863-X
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers. Berkley Books, 1998. ISBN 0-425-17169-8
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. Anchor Books, 1995. ISBN 0-385-41994-5
Tapscott, Don. The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence. McGraw-Hill, 1996. ISBN 0-0706-2200-0
Tapscott, Don. Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation. McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN 0-0706-3361-4
Web Resources
Digital Library Toolkit. Sun Microsystems, January 2003.
Digital Library Technology Trends. Sun Microsystems, August 2002.
Digital Life TV. This site has all the episodes of dl.tv. They are available in wmv (Windows media format) or mpeg-4 (for iPod) format.
IBM’s Millipede Project.
Internet Archive. Archive of the broadcasts of the television show “The Computer Chronicles.”
Internet Bookmobile website (a project of the Internet Archive).
Lyman, Peter and Hal R. Varian of the University of California-Berkeley. “How Much Information?2003” report. This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year.
Lynch, Clifford (of the Coalition for Networked Information). “The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World.”
OCLC. The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan.
and for the web version of the report (there are pdf’s of each section available to download)
Sarah D. Morris’ website Dodger Place. Sarah’s biography is at
Tapscott, Don. Don Tapscott’s website.
“The Big Down: Technologies Converging at the Nano-scale.” etc group, January 2003.
“The Scale of Things – Nanometers and More.” Chart showing comparative sizes, including nanoworld. Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy. Version 10-7-03.
UnionCollege Converging Technologies.
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