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"In this newly revised and expanded third edition, The Changing Academic Library: Operations, Culture, Environments, number 74 in ACRL's Publications in Librarianship series, presents a critical examination of major issues facing colleges and universities and the unique challenges their libraries face. In twelve chapters--including a completely new second chapter on the state of higher education--the book presents an overview of higher education and the role of libraries within the institution, covering academic models from private colleges to public universities; discusses governance models, financing, and organizational culture, and the library's place within them; examines changes in scholarly communication; looks at the impact of the library on its community; and explores issues affecting library collections, access, services, and staffing"--

Here is a unique resource for next generation librarians, addressing the specific needs of GenXers and Millennials as they work to define themselves as information professionals. The book focuses on how NextGens can move their careers forward and positively impact the profession. Library career guru Rachel Singer Gordon herself a NextGen librarian provides timely advice along with tips and insights from dozens of librarians on issues ranging from image and stereotypes, to surviving library school and entry-level positions, to working with older colleagues. A special section for current library administrators and managers makes this a must-read not only for NextGen librarians, but for those who recruit, work with, and mentor them.

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[pt. 1.] An introduction to the atlas : Navigating the future -- The foundations of the atlas -- Finding a center in the dynamic -- A note on rhetoric -- [pt. 2.] The atlas : A note on visualization -- How to navigate the atlas -- Readers of the atlas -- Limitations of the atlas -- [pt. 3.] Threads : [A.] Mission -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Importance of worldview -- Longitude example -- Importance of theory and deep concepts : Libraries and theory -- Conversation theory : Credibility -- Other informative concepts and theories : Dialectic theories ; Sense-making ; Motivation theories ; Motivation ; Learning theory ; Constructivism ; Postmodernism -- Creating a new social compact : Evolution of the social compact -- Thread conclusion -- [B.] Knowledge creation -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Knowledge is created through conversation ; Conversation theory : Conversants ; Service is not invisibility ; Language ; Evolution of systems -- System view -- User-based design -- User systems : Social network sites -- Agreements : Artifacts ; Source amnesia ; Invest in tools of creation over collection of artifacts ; Death of documents ; Memory ; Entailment mesh ; Annotations ; Limitations of tagging ; Cataloging relationships -- Scapes -- Reference extract -- Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore the conversation business -- [C.] Facilitating -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities ; True facilitation means shared ownership : Members not patrons or users -- Means of facilitation -- Access : Publisher of community ; Shared shelves with the community ; Meeting spaces -- Knowledge : Library instruction ; Need for an expanded definition of literacy ; Gaming ; Social literacy -- Environment -- Motivation : Intrinsic ; Extrinsic -- Thread conclusion -- [D.] Communities -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Pressure for participation : Boundary issues -- Digital environments : Internet model example ; Infrastructure providers ; TCP/IP ; Application builders ; Open source ; Information services ; Web 2.0 ; User -- Credibility : From authority to reliability ; Authoritative versus authoritarian ; Putting it all together: the participatory digital library -- Physical environments : Topical centers with curriculum -- Hybrid environments -- Different communities librarians serve -- Public : Free Library of Philadelphia ; Entrepreneurium ; Writing center ; Music center -- Academic : Issues of institutional repositories ; Scholarly communications -- Government : Department of Justice -- Assessment : Mapping conversations -- Special -- School : Growing importance of two-way infrastructure -- Archives -- Go to the conversation : Embedded librarians -- Truly distributed digital library -- Thread conclusion.
[E.] Improve society -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Importance of action and activism -- Service : Service is not invisibility -- Core values : Learning ; Openness ; Intellectual freedom and safety ; Intellectually honest not unbiased ; Ethics -- Social justice issues -- Policy : Democracy and openness overshadowed by technology -- Innovation : Innovation versus entrepreneurship -- Creating an agenda : Risks of data -- Leadership : Obligation of leadership -- Thread conclusion -- [F.] Librarians -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Core skills -- Transition of traditional skills -- Information organization : Cataloging relationships ; Evolution of integrated library systems -- Information seeking -- Public service : Reference -- Collection development : Community as collection ; Issues of institutional repositories -- Administration : Warehousing functions ; Shelving ; Circulation -- Importance of technical skills -- Ambiguity is essential for professional work -- Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams : Relation to other domains ; Information science ; Getting past the L v I debate ; Communications ; Computer science ; Humanities ; Education ; Paraprofessionals -- LIS education : Shift in innovation from academy to ubiquity ; Co-learning -- Increase friction in the process : Every course has symposia and practica -- Curriculum of communication and change over -- Traditional ideas of leadership : Recognize a school as a participatory network ; From school to school of thought ; Avoiding the Florentine dilemma -- Need to expand the educational ladder : Bachelor of information and instructional design ; Need for an executive doctorate ; Institute for advanced librarianship idea ; Vital roles of mentors -- Obligation of leadership and thread conclusion -- [G.] Threads postscript -- Practitioners -- Library and information science scholars -- Students -- Members -- The whole community of librarianship.
[pt. 4.] Web citations -- [pt. 5.] Agreement supplements : Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams ; Academic ; Access ; Administration ; Agreements ; Ambiguity is essential for professional work ; Annotations ; Application builders ; Archives ; Artifacts ; Assessment ; Authoritative versus authoritarian ; Avoiding the Florentine dilemma ; Bachelor of information and instructional design ; Boundary issues ; Cataloging relationships ; Circulation ; Co-learning ; Collection development ; Communications ; Community as collector ; Computer science ; Constructivism ; Conversants ; Conversation theory ; Core skills ; Core values ; Creating a new social compact ; Creating an agenda ; Credibility ; Curriculum of communication and change over traditional ideas of leadership ; Death of documents ; Democracy and openness overshadowed by technology ; Department of Justice ; Dialectic theories ; Different communities librarians serve ; Digital environments ; Embedded librarians ; Entailment mesh ; Entrepreneurium ; Environment ; Ethics ; Every course has symposia and practica ; Evolution of integrated library systems ; Evolution of systems ; Evolution of the social compact ; Extrinsic ; Free Library of Philadelphia ; From authority to reliability ; From school to school of thought ; Gaming ; Getting past the Lv I debate ; Go to the conversation ; Government ; Growing importance of two-way infrastructure ; Humanities ; Hybrid environments ; Importance of a worldview ; Importance of action and activism ; Importance of technical skills ; Importance of theory and deep concepts ; Increase friction in the process ; Information organization ; Information science ; Information seeking ; Information services ; Infrastructure providers ; Innovation ; Innovation versus entrepreneurship ; Institute for advanced librarianship idea ; Intellectual freedom and safety ; Intellectually honest not unbiased ; Internet model example ; Intrinsic ; Invest in tools of creation over collection of artifacts ; Issues of institution repositories ; Knowledge ; Knowledge is created through conversation ; L₀ ; L₁ ; Language ; Leadership ; Learning ; Learning theory ; Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore the conversation business ; Library instruction ; Limitations of tagging ; LIS education ; Longitude example ; Mapping conversations ; Massive scale ; Means of facilitation ; Meeting spaces ; Members not patrons or users ; Memory ; Motivation ; Motivation theory ; Music center ; Need for an executive doctorate ; Need for an expanded definition of literacy ; Need to expand the educational ladder ; Obligation of leadership ; Open source ; Openness ; Paraprofessionals ; Physical environments ; Policy ; Postmodernism ; Pressure for participation ; Public ; Public service ; Publisher of community ; Recognize a school as a participatory network ; Reference ; Reference extract ; Relation to other domains ; Risks of data ; Scapes ; Scholarly communications ; School ; School information management systems ; Selective dissemination of information ; Sense-making ; Service ; Service is not invisibility ; Shared shelves with the community ; Shelving ; Shift in innovation from academy to ubiquity ; Social justice issues ; Social literacy ; Social network sites ; Source amnesia ; Special ; System view ; TCP-IP ; The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities ; Topical centers with curriculum ; Transition of traditional skills ; True facilitation means shared ownership ; Truly distributed digital library ; User ; User systems ; User-based design ; Vital roles of mentors ; Warehousing functions ; Web 2.0 ; Writing center -- [pt. 5.] Atlas postscript.

How librarians can be radical positive change agents in their communities, dedicated to learning and making a difference. This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities--librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way. The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities--students, faculty, scholars, law firms--in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers "Frequently Argued Questions" about the new librarianship. ng with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities--students, faculty, scholars, law firms--in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers "Frequently Argued Questions" about the new librarianship. ng with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities--students, faculty, scholars, law firms--in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers "Frequently Argued Questions" about the new librarianship. ng with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities--students, faculty, scholars, law firms--in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers "Frequently Argued Questions" about the new librarianship. ng; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers "Frequently Argued Questions" about the new librarianship.

What competences are needed for heritage librarians, and how can they be taught? The management of heritage collections requires a unique mix of knowledge and skills, including expertise in preservation and conservation; heritage policies; acquisitions and collection management; bibliographic description; the materiality of books and other collection objects; and the history of libraries. Librarians must also understand the need for open access, the importance of marketing, and the challenges posed by digitization.

This critical bibliography of museum studies comprises an organized collection of essays on the various types of museums--art, natural history, history, science and technology, and folk--and on general aspects--collections, education, exhibitions, etc.--that cut across the media. Most of the essays are cogent, substantial if not comprehensive, and clear. The editor has taken care to see that they follow a similar format of historical essay followed by a full bibliography of items discussed. Library Journal As the number of museums in the United States has grown to more than 6500 in this century, the museum profession has experienced similar growth. In addition to academic training and accreditation programs in the field, an expanding body of literature on museum history, philosophy, and functions has evolved, little of which has received the critical attention it deserves. This reference volume serves as an up-to-date guide to this wealth of literature, identifying and evaluating works that introduce the general reader, the museum studies student, and the beginning professional to the history, philosophy, and functions of museums. The volume presents a series of informative, historical outlines and critical bibliographic essays on all aspects of museum history, philosophy, and functions. Contributors treat such subjects as art museums, natural history museums, science and technology museums, history museums, collections, exhibition, education and interpretation, and the public and museums. Each chapter consists of an introductory historical narrative, a survey of sources, and a bibliographic checklist that contains cited and additional sources. A set of appendices include a geographically organized bibliography of museum directories, a guide to archives and special collections, and a selective list of museum-related periodicals. The book concludes with a comprehensive general subject index. This work will be an important reference tool for museum professionals and cultural historians, as well as for courses in museum studies. It will also be a valuable addition to both academic and public libraries.

Fully updated and extended to examine the many changes that have occurred in the last decade, this second edition of world-renowned text Museum Basicsprovides a basic guide to all aspects of museum work and staff experience from museum organization, through collections management and conservation, to audience development and education. Drawing on a wide range of practical experience, the authors have provided an excellent tool that enable museums throughout the world to conquer a common challen≥ to keep up-to-date with new ideas and changing practices. Organized on a modular basis, with over 100 units, Museum Basicsis a reference to support day-to-day museum management, a key text in pre-service and in-service training programmes, and works brilliantly alongside case studies, project work and group discussion. With a glossary, sources of information and a select bibliography, this is certainly a book that no museum professional, nor museum and heritage studies student will want to be without.

Louise M. Kursmark is co-author of the Expert Resume series, and is president and founder of Best Impression Career Services, Inc. in Cincinnati Ohio. Best Impression is a company specializing in resumes and job search strategies for sales, marketing, and executive clients worldwide. She is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), Certified Employment Interview Professional (CEIP), Job and Career Transition Coach (JCTC), and Credentialed Career Manager (CCM). She is a founding member of the Career Management Alliance, an Internet-based training and development organization for career professionals.

Reviews and ExcerptsThe resumes of students are really different Who else has job titles like Tutor, Camp Counselor, Lifeguard, Residence Hall Counselor, Intern, Student Teacher, Waitress, Sorority President, and Volunteer? How do you show clinical rotations and unpaid work experience on a resume? How can you use your achievements in high school to maximum advantage? How do you write an all-purpose resume and cover letter if you don't know what you want to do after graduation? The best way to ensure a distinguished career is to start out your career with the best first job after graduation. Distinguished by its highly readable samples...essential for library collections. - Library Journal1-885288-18-2

Great Jobs for History Majors helps students explore career options within their field of study. Every aspect of the job-search process is covered, including assessing talents and skills, exploring options, making a smooth transition from college to career, conducting an effective job search, and landing the job. The book is filled with a variety of career choices.

"GREAT JOBS SERIES ANSWERS THE QUESTION, "WHAT CAN I DO WITH A MAJOR IN . . . ?"" Every college major gives students valuable skills and training, perfect for a wide range of careers. The Great Jobs series helps students: Assess talents and skills for a job Explore a wide range of career options Target the perfect career Present college majors as workplace assets Perfect their job search And much more!

A liberal arts degree offers abundant job possibities! You've worked hard for that liberal arts degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options. Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors will help you choose the right career out of the myriad possibilities at your disposal. It provides detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search. You'll soon be on the fast track to landing a job that satisfies your personal, professional, and practical needs. Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors will help you: Determine the occupation that's best suited for you Craft a résumé and cover letter that stand out from the rest Learn from practicing professionals about everyday life on the job Become familiar with current statistics on salaries and trends within the profession Go from liberal arts major to: Corporate Spokesperson * Author * Audiovisual Technician * Marketing Specialist * College Professor * Fundraiser * Statistician * Social Worker

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Roy brings together authors from the top-tier schools to outline their programmes and surrounding efforts and provide exmaples of how to incorporate service learning into library and information science education.

In Information Nation, three dedicated educators ask, "Why?" They present three years of research on students and workers in the information professions, highlighting barriers to inclusion and retention of U.S. students in information-related fields. They analyze the forces that prevent high school and college students from getting the interdisciplinary skills they need to help the U.S. regain and retain leadership in the world of information and they tell the stories of a diverse group of students who are thriving in new majors and new jobs that have the potential to revitalize our economy."

This collection of essays from ten from-the-trenches librarians offers practical insights into how to launch and manage your library career. Though everyone's path is different, this book is intended to help you formulate an organized approach to finding your own career path.

There's never been a more challenging time to find a position as an academic librarian, especially for those who have recently completed their library education. But whether job-hunters are jumping into the job pool for the very first time, or back in the water after a dry spell, Neely and her crack team of expert contributors have the information needed to stay afloat. Their collective wisdom will act as a lifesaver, providing * Practical and specific advice on how the job-search process works, including the how-tos of reading between the lines of a job listing and assembling a compelling application packet * Keys to understanding the mysterious ways of search committees, and what criteria may be used to determine successful candidates * The nuts and bolts of undergoing a successful job interview, plus tips for negotiating when an offer is made Job-hunters at every level of experience will find this volume the definitive resource for moving successfully into an academic career.

Now in its fifth version, this book is a one-volume encyclopedia of library history, demographies, folklore, humour, current events, and popular wisdom.

An insider shows how to tailor a résumé that sets applicants apart from a sea of candidates. Recruiting director Brad Karsh has worked with thousands of misguided job seekers. Now he's putting his experience into print, with step-by-step guidelines to improve the wording, content, and format of any résumé. Knowing how employers choose candidates, the author shows how to make a résumé stand out. Whether readers are looking to make a career change, re-enter the workforce, find a first job, or acquire an internal position, Karsh demonstrates how to transform any résumé?and get results. Includes advice for: ? First jobs ? Re-entering the work force ? Applicants who have been laid off ? Career changes ? Older applicants ? And more

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"Gaining admission to law, business, or medical school - as well as graduate school on the whole - is more competitive than ever. So how do you ensure that you have the edge over other applicants? One surefire way is to submit a thoughtfully crafted application essay or personal statement. It is through this personal statement that admissions officers gain insight into your personality and intellect. Good ones take time and preparation; bad ones may sabotage your chances for success. This one-of-a-kind book gives you valuable advice, including critical guidance on how to start, what to include, and what you should never say; dozens of examples of personal statements that worked at the most competitive schools; and what admissions directors at the top schools are looking for."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

First-hand accounts from real-life librarians in a variety of information science disciplines make this career guide come alive, and fifteen sample job descriptions for different niches of information services offer a reality check for those committed to understanding an ever-changing array of possibilities. Tracing career paths, everyday duties, and qualities for succeeding, these spotlights provide perspective from the trenches. From bioinformatics librarian to consumer health librarian to principal and information broker, anyone entering the profession can find an inspirational mentor as well as hard-hitting career-building information.

The role of academic librarian is far from cut-and-dried. For starters, there are the numerous job classifications: staff or professional employment, full faculty status, various forms of tenure, continuing contract, and/or promotion through academic ranks. While every academic librarian works to meet the research needs of an institution’s faculty and students, many are expected to assume other obligations as part of a faculty or tenure system—including publication, research, service, and professional activities. If this were not enough to test a librarian’s mettle, the widely varying academic focuses and cultures of college and university libraries almost certainly will. The Successful Academic Librarian, expertly edited by academic librarian, writer, and speaker Gwen Meyer Gregory, is an antidote to the stress and burnout that almost every academic librarian experiences at one time or another. In this helpful book, Gregory and nearly 20 of her peers and mentors take a practical approach to a full range of critical topics facing the profession. Their advice, war stories, tips, techniques, and inspiration will help you thrive in your academic library career.

Written in a warm and personal style, Working in the Virtual Stacks presents an exciting future for librarians, already upon us today!

Get informed and enjoy a successful, gratifying career! Get started in a position that has a future and is financially rewarding. Opportunities in Library and Information Science Careers provides you with a complete overview of the job possibilities, salary figures, and experience required to enter the fields of library and information science. This career-boosting book will help you: Determine the specialty that's right for you, from library science to computing to research Acquire in-depth knowledge of library and information science Find out what kind of salary you can expect Understand the daily routine of your chosen field Focus your job search using industry resources ENJOY A GREAT CAREER AS AN: archivist * bookmobile driver * information broker * librarian* teacher

The 52nd Edition of Peterson's Graduate Programs in Business, Education, Information Studies, Law & Social Work 2018 reviews more than 10,400 graduate programs across all of the relevant disciplines to help you decide on your plan for graduate study. Essential Data on Graduate Programs such as: Accounting and Finance Business Management Education Hospitality Management Law Library and Information Sciences Management Information Systems Marketing Social work Sports Management User-friendly data summaries for these graduate programs at over 1,700 institutions are detailed and feature facts and figures on: Each program's accreditation Degree requirements Application deadlines Contact information Financial support details Description of faculty members' credentials Insights into student body demographics. This hardcover edition of Peterson's Graduate Programs in Business, Education, Information Studies, Law & Social Work 2018 has more than 1700 pages of valuable reference of updated information. Two-page in-depth descriptions, written by featured institutions, offer complete details about specific graduate programs, schools, or departments as well as information on specific faculty research interests that may align with your own. Comprehensive directories list the many diverse programs in this volume, as well as others in the Peterson's graduate series.

The five-volume Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 16th Edition is an essential resource for public, college, high school, and junior high school libraries; career centers; guidance offices; and other agencies involved with career exploration and planning. Along with revisions and updates, each article has been expanded to a new, more comprehensive format, and many new articles have been added. Each article offers detailed career information, sidebars, and other user-friendly features, including a new Career Ladder, which shows common career paths for each profession, and new sections, such as Unions and Associations and Tips for Entry. Called out by graphic icons are the top fastest-growing careers and the top careers that experts predict will add the greatest number of positions. This edition features: Comprehensive overviews of 120 career fields and industries The latest information on job duties, salaries, and employment trends for more than 820 professions Sidebars providing additional reading on industry issues and history, useful Web sites, industry jargon, and much more Hundreds of photographs of people at work Career articles keyed to two different government classification systems Career Guidance section in Volume 1, providing information on interviewing, job hunting, networking, writing r#65533;sum#65533;s, and more A comprehensive job title index in each volume, plus additional indexes in Volume 1 Extensive online references Information on using social networking sites for job-hunting, electronic r#65533;sum#65533;s, and more.

The 53rd Edition of Peterson's Graduate Programs in Business, Education, Information Studies, Law & Social Work 2019 reviews more than 10,400 graduate programs across all of the relevant disciplines to help you decide on your plan for graduate study. Essential Data on Graduate Programs such as: Accounting and Finance Business Management Education Hospitality Management Law Library and Information Sciences Management Information Systems Marketing Social work Sports Management User-friendly data summaries for these graduate programs at over 1,700 institutions are detailed and feature facts and figures on: Each program's accreditation Degree requirements Application deadlines Contact information Financial support details Description of faculty members' credentials Insights into student body demographics. This hardcover edition of Peterson's Graduate Programs in Business, Education, Information Studies, Law & Social Work 2019 has more than 1700 pages of valuable reference information that has been updated and will be available in the Fall of 2018. Two-page in-depth descriptions, written by featured institutions, offer complete details about specific graduate programs, schools, or departments as well as information on specific faculty research interests that may align with your own. Comprehensive directories list the many diverse programs in this volume, as well as others in the Peterson's graduate series.

Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term Digital Humanities is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We provide a historical overview of how the term Humanities Computing developed into the term Digital Humanities, and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline. This text will be required reading for scholars and students who want to discover the history of Digital Humanities through its core writings, and for those who wish to understand the many possibilities that exist when trying to define Digital Humanities."

On May 21, 2010, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt posted the following provocative questions online: “Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society?” As recently as the mid-2000s, questions like these would have been unthinkable. But today serious scholars are asking whether the institutions of the academy as they have existed for decades, even centuries, aren’t becoming obsolete. Every aspect of scholarly infrastructure is being questioned, and even more importantly, being hacked. Sympathetic scholars of traditionally disparate disciplines are canceling their association memberships and building their own networks on Facebook and Twitter. Journals are being compiled automatically from self-published blog posts. Newly minted PhDs are forgoing the tenure track for alternative academic careers that blur the lines between research, teaching, and service. Graduate students are looking beyond the categories of the traditional CV and building expansive professional identities and popular followings through social media. Educational technologists are “punking” established technology vendors by rolling out their own open source infrastructure. Here, in Hacking the Academy, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt have gathered a sampling of the answers to their initial questions from scores of engaged academics who care deeply about higher education. These are the responses from a wide array of scholars, presenting their thoughts and approaches with a vibrant intensity, as they explore and contribute to ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure for a new millennium.