The Library Catalogue as Social Space: Promoting Patron Driven Collections, Online Communities, and Enhanced Reference and Readers' Services: Promoting Patron Driven Collections, Online Communities, and Enhanced Reference and Readers' Services

Emphasizing the advantages of working together and exploring the future of library services in an online, socially connected world, this exciting book shows how all public library professionals can take advantage of our strongest community and information tool—the library catalogue.

• An index of key concepts and terms

• A foreword written by Barbara Tillett, chief of the Policy and Standards Division at the Library of Congress