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Joan Frye Williams is an internationally recognized library consultant and futurist. Over a long and successful career she has been a librarian, vendor, planner, trainer, author, evaluator, and user of library services, with a special emphasis on fresh practices, innovation, and emerging library trends. Joan is best known as an acute--and sometimes irreverent--observer of human behavior and importer of new ideas into the library environment.