Includes bibliographical references and index.

The invisible library / Christine Borgman -- What are digital libraries? / Donald J. Waters -- What is digital information? / Abby Smith -- Back to the future / Richard De Gennaro -- The new cybrarians / Joseph Janes -- Libraries as places to linger and mingle / Alex Wright -- Research libraries ponder : what's next? / Deanna B. Marcum -- The Digital Library Federation : membership has its privileges -- What becomes a leader most? / Karin Wittenborg -- Which came first? / Lorrie Lejeune -- Reference in the digital age / Anne G. Lipow -- Primary resources at your fingertips / Roy Rosenzweig -- Shelve under E / Scott Carlson -- Value propositions / Chris D. Ferguson and Charles A. Bunge -- Glossary of terms / California Digital Library -- Growing up digital / John Seely Brown -- Nothing but Net / Diana and James Oblinger -- Chips and dips : educating and serving Net generation / Stephen Abram and Judy Luther -- Net gains / Steve Jones -- Emerging roles / Gary Marchionini and Hermann Maurer -- Origin of the species / Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne Thorin -- Diffuse libraries / Wendy Pradt Lougee -- Digital collections, digital libraries, and the digitization of Cultural Heritage information / Clifford Lynch -- Intermediate consumers / Lorcan Dempsey -- Advanced Photo Shop / Scott Carlson -- Cautionary tales : part one / Paul B. Gandel -- Cautionary tales : part two / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Strength in numbers / William Y. Arms -- Who uses what? / Amy Friedlander -- Turn on before using / Scott Carlson -- The tipping point / Jerry D. Campbell -- The case against information literacy / Stanley Wilder -- How they view us : perceptions of libraries and information resources -- The public trust / Robert Putnam -- Wagging the tail / Chris Anderson -- Libraries by the tail / Tom Storey -- Phoning home alone / Christine Rosen -- Keystone cops / Bonnie Nardi -- Our computers, ourselves / Sherry Turkle -- Managing the Internet / Marylaine Block -- Growing pains / Sharon Gray Weiner -- Net generation students and libraries / Joan K. Lippincott -- Viewing patterns / Online Computer Library Center -- "Is what's past, prologue?" / Donald Hawkins -- Net effects / Greg Notess -- Famine or feast? / Paul B. Gandel and Richard N. Katz -- From a distance / Ron Chepesiuk -- Law review / Jennifer Burek Pierce -- What we know will hurt us / Joseph Janes -- Internet searching gets thumbs up / Deborah Fallows -- Et tu, Yahoo!? / George Plosker -- Fear no evil / Gary Price -- Scanning the horizon / Gordon Flagg -- As Google goes- / Gordon Flagg -- Google, the Khmer Rouge, and the public good / Mary Sue Coleman -- Scribes of the digital era / Jeffrey R. Young -- Apples and oranges / Anne R. Kenney ... [et al.] -- Web value / Greg Notess -- The user is not broken : a meme masquerading as a manifesto / Karen G. Schneider -- Invasion of the pod people / Christine Rosen -- Striking a balance / Marshall Breeding -- Getting the goods / Buff Hirko -- Where's wiki??? -- Sticky wikis / Paula Berinstein -- Playing well with others / Kim Guenther -- Caught in the webbing / Marshall Breeding -- Defining findability / Peter Morville -- Internet libraries -- Ten tips for a better blog / Rebecca Blood -- Blog beginnings / Rebecca Blood -- The blog files / Lee Rainie -- Coming soon : doing research with your cell phone / Scott Carlson -- Digital library service for all / Lori Bell and Tom Peters -- The future of e-books / Lynn Silipigni Connaway -- iPods add wow factor / Michael Stephens -- More on pod people / Sheri Crofts ... [et al.] -- Wireless libraries and wireless communities : why? / Stephen Abram -- IM the walrus / Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens -- I am the very model of computerized librarian / Diane M. O'Keefe and Janet T. O'Keefe -- Starting out / Abby Smith -- Principles for good digital collections / Timothy W. Cole -- Just say the word / Karen Coyle -- Starting a digitization project / Collaborative digitization project -- Technical infrastructure/image creation / Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University Library -- Factors to consider when choosing digital formats / Caroline Arms and Carl Fleischhauer -- Digitization = access / Abby Smith -- Going where the users are / Jeffrey Penka -- Chatting it up / Buff Hirko -- Making chat work better / Steve Coffman and Linda Arret -- Copyright need-to-know basics / June Besek -- Copyright terms and the public domain in the United States / Peter B. Hirtle -- Why librarians care about copyright / Carol Henderson -- Digitization is not preservation - at least not yet / Abby Smith -- Thirteen ways of looking at digital preservation / Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey -- Strategies for preserving digital content / Abby Smith -- The key to LOCKSS : an interview with Victoria Reich, director, LOCKSS Program / Chris Ferguson -- Reinventing the library / Geoffrey Freeman -- The third law / Michèle V. Cloonan and John G. Dove -- Keeping it open / Nancy Kranich -- A modest proposal / Roy Tennant -- Looking for bucks / Bill Becker -- Getting the right stuff / Jill Ann Hurst -- Tips for managing e-resources / Marilyn Geller.