Table of Contents
List of figures, table and case studies
Chapter 1: What are scenarios?
What is the value of scenarios?
The future impacting on libraries
What is the future and does science fiction predict the future?
An initial view of the Internet
Change of attitudes toward the future
Development of scenarios as a discipline
Chapter 2: The complexities of our informational environment
Libraries and their environments
Broad disruptive technological impact on libraries
Issues in the wider environment
The author–publisher–library relationship
Implications for the future of work
Chapter 3: The future and the past: models are changing
Consortia in our corporate lives
Changing roles of and pressures on consortia
What are we doing, or what is our business model?
Chapter 4: Understanding choices
Beginning to construct scenarios through choices
Chapter 5: Toward a new way of thinking
Chapter 6: Designing your process
Scenario construction beginnings
Chapter 7: Scenarios and implementation
The staff in the implementation of the Preferred Scenario
Chapter 8: Choice, chance and (less than) certainty
Issue 2: search engine capability
Issue 5: continue to build a trust metric for the library
Issue 6: so what is your future?
Case study 1: A major Hong Kong university library
Case study 2: A major Australian university library
Case study 3: CAVAL Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Case study 4: SOLINET scenarios
Case study 6: The possible world of library consortia
Chapter 10: Implementation and the impact of change
Change, demolition and reconstruction
Getting involved and involvement