Contents

1. Introduction

2. Anarchists in the Library

   1. Some Assumptions about Libraries

   2. The Shock of Exclusion

   3. Open to All: Preserving Library Values in a Digital World

   4. Adhocracy and the Transformation of Libraries

   5. You Are Not a Tinker Toy

   6. Encoded: Gender, Technology, and Libraries

   7. Intellectual Freedom and the Library as a Workplace

   8. UVa, the Cult of Change, and the Uses of Fear

   9. What Libraries Should Be: A Values Proposition

   10. Ordinary Americans

   11. Un-American Affairs

   12. Taking a Longer View

   13. Present Imperfect, Future Tense

   14. The Price of "Free"

   15. The Library Isn't Flat

   16. The Everything Library

   17. Disruption and the Value of Small Things

   18. Learning to Do Research the Hard Way

   19. Moments and Monuments

   20. Get Cracking

   21. Rent Control

   22. Privacy for the Public

3. Libraries and Learning

   1. Argument, Inquiry, and Learning to Value Evidence

   2. Information Ethics, Blogging, and the Non-Fiction Novel

   3. Undergraduates in the Library, Trying Not to Drown

   4. In the Teeth of the Evidence

   5. Why the "Research Paper" Isn't Working

   6. Second Thoughts: The Value of Research Papers

   7. Sources of Confusion

   8. Burke's Parlor Tricks

   9. The Language of Libraries

   10. Robo-Research, Robo-Writing

   11. The Illogical Complexity of the Walled-Garden Library

   12. Tacit Knowledge and the Student Researcher

   13. When It Doesn't Look Like Justice

4. Knowledge as a Public Good

   1. Open Access and the Library's Missing Mission

   2. Rethinking Research "Productivity"

   3. No Problem!

   4. Women and Wikipedia

   5. Dispatches from the Future

   6. Prepare to Repel Researchers!

   7. Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!

   8. The Revolution Will Not Be Subscription-Based

   9. Occupy Knowledge: It's Ours, After All

   10. I'm Not Buying It

   11. The Austere Academy

   12. Enlighten Me

   13. As If Lives Depended On It

   14. The AHA Asks "What About the Children?"

   15. Superstars, Serfs, and Scholars

   16. Open Access, Tenure, and the Common Good

   17. The Sting

   18. Libraries Beyond Borders: Rethinking Community

   19. The New Interlibrary Loan

   20. Maciej Ceglowski's Internet Repair Kit

   21. Determining Our Tech

5. Books, Reading, Culture, and Society

   1. Another Fine Mess: Patterson, Amazon, and the Commodification of Reading

   2. The Myth of the Bookless Library

   3. Getting Rid of Books: A Heresy

   4. The End of the Twilight of Doom

   5. Stacks and Awe

   6. Throwing the Books at Each Other

   7. Breaking Taboos for All the Right Reasons

   8. Resisting Amazonification

   9. Reading Between the Lions

6. Online Reading Communities

   1. Reading Together Online: Getting Personal

   2. “Reading as a Contact Sport”: Online Book Groups and the Social Dimensions of Reading

   3. Culture Shock: When Goodreads and LibraryThing Collide

   4. Finding the Right Book

   5. Goodbye, FriendFeed

   6. What Book Bloggers Have to Say

   7. Dorothy-L: An Interview with Diane Kovacs

   8. Platforms and the Shape of Reader Participation

   9. Readers Respond to Online Reading Communities

   10. Authors Interacting With Readers Online

   11. Sharing Reading in 140 Characters

   12. Goodreads and the Commodification of the Reading Self

   13. Reading and Writing Together Online: Exploring Wattpad