[Web4lib] Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google

[Jill Cirasella]

We are pleased to announce that the journal Library Philosophy and
Practice has published a special issue entitled "Shape Shifters:
Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google."  The special issue,
freely accessible at http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/lppgoogle.htm (and
also at the journal's mirror site, at
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/lppgoogle.htm), was guest edited
by Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella of the Brooklyn College Library.

Librarians have a long history of responding professionally and
creatively to changes in information dissemination technology. It is no
surprise, therefore, that they are adapting themselves and their work to
Google, its many modules, and its many competitors. Articles in "Shape
Shifters" explore how library services, resources, and job activities
are changing in response to these tools and the paradigm shift they
herald.

Articles in "Shape Shifters" (all are available in both HTML and PDF):
 
- "Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of
Google"
by Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella, Reference Librarians, Brooklyn
College Library

- "'Have You Searched Google Yet?' Using Google as a Discovery Tool for
Cataloging"
by Jennifer Lang, Electronic Resources Cataloger, Princeton University
Library

- "Using Google Analytics for Improving Library Website Content and
Design: A Case Study"
by Wei Fang, Digital Services Librarian, Rutgers-Newark Law Library for
the Center of Law and Justice

- "You and Me and Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google into the
Reference Interview"
by Jill Cirasella, Reference Librarian, Brooklyn College Library

- "Library Resource Sharing in the Early Age of Google"
by Beth Posner, Head of Interlibrary Loan Services, Mina Rees Library,
CUNY Graduate Center

- "Library Delivery 2.0: Delivering Library Materials in the Age of
Netflix"
by Lori Bowen Ayre, The Galecia Group

- "What ABOUT the book? Google-izing the Catalog with Tables of
Contents"
by Angi Faiks, Associate Director, Collection Management Team Leader,
Dewitt Wallace Library, Macalaster College; Amy Radermacher,
Reference/Cataloging/Electronic Resources Librarian, Library Technology
Center, Concordia University; and Amy Sheehan, Reference and Instruction
Librarian, Bush Memorial Library, Hamline University

- "Google 'til They Goggle: Trawling Electronic Databases to Build Your
Collection and Better Serve Your Client Base"
by Carol Ottolenghi, Research Librarian, Office of the Ohio Attorney
General

- "Standing up for Open Source"
by Lee David Jaffe, Interim Assistant to the University Librarian, and
Greg Careaga, Head, Film and Music Center, University Library,
University of California, Santa Cruz

- "Unclear on the Context: Refocusing on Information Literacy's
Evaluative Component in the Age of Google"
by Genevieve Williams, Undergraduate Research Librarian, Robert A.L.
Mortvedt Library, Pacific Lutheran University

- "Research Authority in the Age of Google: Equilibrium Sought"
by Mariana Regalado, Reference Librarian, Brooklyn College Library

- "Digg.com and Socially-Driven Authority"
by Steven Ovadia, Web Services Librarian, Libraries, LaGuardia Community
College

- "The View from an Elder: Closing Essay"
by JoEllen Broome, Reference Librarian, Zach S. Henderson Library,
Georgia Southern University

We hope you'll read, enjoy, and respond to these articles!

Library Philosophy and Practice is a peer-reviewed electronic journal
that explores the connection between library practice and the philosophy
and theory behind it. To learn more about Library Philosophy and
Practice, visit http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/lpp.htm.

Jill Cirasella and Mariana Regalado
Guest Editors, Library Philosophy and Practice