Summary: | Papers in this e-book are selected from the excellent conference held in Hong Kong titled 'Academic Librarian; dinosaur or Phoenix?' The conference was organized by and held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in April 2007. The title of the conference was drawn from a paper written some years earlier by Colin Steele who was, at that time, the University Librarian at the Australian National University in Canberra. As the conference literature indicated: " ... the basic premise: 'a library service and its future are only as assured as the people offering that service'. The conference will examin.
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