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Advances in Library Administration and Organization: Advances in Library Administration and Organization

Autor Edward D. Garten, Delmus E. Williams, James M. Nyce
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mar 2006
This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization is designed to help administrators meet the challenges of running organizations in an ambiguous climate. It leads with a paper that uses innovation theory and a communications model to track how LIS practitioners acquire the theoretical base required to undergird their efforts. This theoretical piece is followed by a very personal view of what knowledge one must acquire to succeed as a leader of libraries, offering a more practical view of how administrators develop. Then comes a set of papers that address very real problems - performance assessment and its impact, the question of whether it is profitable for communities to completely outsource public library operations, and then three separate articles that look at career paths for public and academic librarians and the retention of those people by organizations. On a different tack, another contributor looks at how libraries communicate with their clients while cutting journals to insure consumer confidence in the decision-making process of the library; subsequently developing a model for joint decision-making that should be of interest to our community. The final paper leaves the realm of the library and examines how public and private organizations in the United Kingdom manage information as an asset and how that affects their performance in the marketplace.
As in past volume, this edition of ALAO includes an eclectic collection of strong papers that convey the results of kind of research that managers need. mixing theory with a good dose of pragmaticism. The result should add value to the literature.

Series information at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/series/alao

*Addresses theoretical and practical issues administrators face in ambiguous environments
*An eclectic collection of papers that reflect the myriad challenges library administrators face everyday
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780762312979
ISBN-10: 0762312971
Pagini: 444
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 635 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Editura: Emerald Publishing
Seria Advances in Library Administration and Organization


Public țintă

Librarians, Information Scientists, Information Management practitioners, scholars and students in these disciplines

Cuprins

List of Contributors. Introduction. (J.M. Nyce).
A Model for Theory Choice: Theory Functions and Diffusion of Innovation. (B. Van der Veer Martens).
Leadership and Change: An Intellectual Journey.
(J. Mulhern). Counting Performance: Perceptions and Resources of Performance Assessment in Florida Public Libraries. (L.N. White). Contracting Public Library Management to Private Vendors: The New Public Management Model. (R.C. Ward, M. Carpenter). Career Development Directions for the Public Library Middle Level Manager. (J. Golden). Academic Librarians' Career Choice. (J. Luzius). Will They Stay or Will They Go?: Predictors of Academic Librarian Turnover. (L.K. Colding). A Case Examination of Decision-Making Factors: Do Faculty and Librarians Agree on Criteria Upon Which to Cancel Journels. (J.H. Walther). Senior UK Managers' Identification of Attributes of Information Assets. (J. Stenson). About the Authors.
Author Index. Subject Index.

Recenzii

"...a valuable resource for all library professionals. This on-going series has maintained a strong professional standard, with research articles that address today's challenges, enrich us with shared experience, and provide a forum for the perplexities of our dynamic profession."
- Linda Collins, Harvard University in JOURNAL OF ACCESS SERVICES, vol.3, number 1, 2005