Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Text Boxes -- Preface -- 1. Change-Major to Minor -- Fundamental Change -- Some Important Trends -- Creating the Library Compass -- Concluding Thoughts -- 2. Building a Path to the Future -- Environmental Scanning Reports -- Concluding Thoughts -- 3. Transforming the Future -- Impetus -- Identifying Trends -- Building Scenarios -- Transformation -- Concluding Thoughts -- 4. Related Literature -- Scenario Planning -- Some Key Writings -- Use of Scenarios in General -- Writings Relevant to Academic Libraries -- Writings Relevant to Public Libraries -- Concluding Thoughts -- 5. Future Views of Academic Libraries -- Higher Education -- Trends in Academic Libraries -- Unfamiliarity with Libraries and the Role of Librarians -- Exploring the Use of Different Scenarios -- Six Academic Library Scenarios -- Extending the Scenarios beyond Fifteen Years -- Concluding Thoughts -- 6. Perspectives on Trends and Scenarios: Academic Libraries -- Scholarly Communication and Liberal Arts College Libraries -- Scholarly Communication and the Role of the Liberal Arts College Library -- Toward Building an Embedded Academic Library: The Case of Shaping Drexel University Libraries Spaces -- Revisiting the Scenarios through Space Planning -- Concluding Thoughts -- 7. Future Views of Public Libraries -- Public Library Association Planning Process -- Scenarios and Public Libraries -- Out-of-the-Box Thinking -- Concluding Thoughts -- 8. Perspectives on Trends and Scenarios: Public Libraries -- Scenario One: The "Status Quo" Library -- Scenario Two: The Community "Living Room" -- Scenario Three: The "Electronic" Library -- Scenario Four: The "Happening Place" Library -- Comments on the Scenarios -- Concluding Thoughts -- 9. Preparing for the Future: Some Final Thoughts -- Leadership.

Staff Abilities for the Present and Future -- Currents in Scenario Development -- Privatizing Libraries -- Libraries Merely Trying to Keep Up -- Revisiting Space Planning -- Issues of Importance to the Broader Organization -- Concept of Scenarios Revisited -- Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix A. The Use of Scenarios in the Pierce County Library System -- Appendix B. The Anythink Revolution -- About the Authors -- Index.