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Volume 2, Number 2, 2000-2001

Re-Imagining Our Libraries for the Digital Age
by William H. Dutton
At this time in USC's development, with the imminent reopening of its main Doheny Memorial Library, it is important to challenge conventional images of the state of our libraries and their future prospects. More

Doheny Memorial Library
by Jerry D. Campbell
I appreciate the opportunity to provide this brief prospective on USC libraries and want to use it to accomplish two objectives. The first is to provide a picture of the comparative quality of our libraries, and the second is to outline some of the library challenges we face. There are numerous subjects not included in here, and I would be glad to address them in subsequent issues. More

USC's Health Sciences Libraries
by William Clintworth
Attempting to envision the future of the USC Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) in the coming decade is a far easier task today than it might have been in the early 1980s. If a similar challenge had been posed then, even the most gifted visionary could not have predicted the startling innovations of the past two decades or the overwhelming impact technology has had on... More

In This Edition:
Re-Imagining Our Libraries for the Digital Age by William Dutton Doheny Memorial Library by Jerry D. Campbell USC's Health Sciences Libraries by William Clintworth Lessons in the Future of Libraries by Marianne Afifi Improving the Research Libraries by Peggy Kamuf Gabriel and Matilda Barnett Information Technology Center by Albert Brecht	CIS Year-End Report by Peter Starr Librarianship and the Public Purpose by Robert Labaree Reflections on the Future of the Library by Hilary Schor The Last Book by A. Michael Knoll Box 1: Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized knowledge device; Trade-Name: "BOOK" Author Anonymous

Last Updated on August 3, 2001