The Generation X Librarian ─ Essays on Leadership, Technology, Pop Culture, Social Responsibility and Professional Identity

Generation X includes individuals born roughly between 1961 and 1981. This generation has faced major advances in technology, environmental degradation, and widening economic injustice, all of which affect libraries and librarians. This collection of critical essays highlights the special challenges that face Generation X librarians. Topics covered include management and leadership, rapidly changing technology, social attitudes and stereotypes within popular culture, and how Generation X librarians have responded to or developed in response to those themes. This work fills many of the gaps present in the professional literature on librarianship and our younger generations.

Martin K. Wallace is a librarian at the University of Maine. He lives in Orono, Maine. REBECCA TOLLEY-STOKES is an associate professor and librarian at East Tennessee State University. She lives in Johnson City, Tennessee, Erik Sean Estep of Greenville, North Carolina, is a librarian at East Carolina University.