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Beyond Survival: Managing Academic Libraries in Transition de Elizabeth J. Wood

Beyond Survival: Managing Academic Libraries in Transition

Autor Elizabeth J. Wood, Rush Miller, Amy Knapp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 dec 2006 – vârsta până la 17 ani
One part theory (borrowed from business world), one part practice (including detailed case studies of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona), one part inspiration: Beyond Survival offers ideas about how academic libraries can not only survive in the short term, but take advantage of emergent opportunities by judiciously adopting the same organizational development tools and concepts espoused by the business world.While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence that significant organizational changes are taking place in academic libraries, the literature suggests that most of these changes take the form of evolutionary, or incremental improvement. But what happens when libraries find themselves in a society characterized by increased information availability compression of time and space, and growing turbulence and unpredictability?These are conditions with which the business world has been grappling for years, conditions that require not an evolutionary approach, but nimbleness and rapid response. One part theory (borrowed from business world), one part practice (including detailed case studies of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona), one part inspiration, Beyond Survival shows you how the transition tactics and strategies developed by businesses can be adapted to academic libraries. By judiciously adopting the same organizational development tools and concepts espoused by the business world, academic libraries can not only survive in the short term, but can take advantage of emergent opportunities to ensure long-term excellence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781591583370
ISBN-10: 1591583373
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Libraries Unlimited
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Elizabeth J. Wood, holding an AMLS and BA in German from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Murray State University in Kentucky. Author of the first in the Greenwood Library Management Series Strategic Marketing for Libraries (1988) as well as a chapter in James Rettig's Distinguished Classics of Reference Publishing (1992), Elizabeth was keynote speaker at the 1986 LOEX Conference, has written several articles, and has presented many workshops about academic library marketing and strategic planning. A veteran of more than 30 years of academic library service and some 12 years as head of the Information Services Department at Bowling Green State University library.Dr. Rush Miller earned the BA, MA and PhD in Medieval History along with the MLS. His library administrative career spans 32 years, including 12 years in his current position as Hillman University Librarian and Director of the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to Pittsburgh, he was Dean of Libraries and Learning Resources at Bowling Green State University, and Director of Libraries at Sam Houston State University and Delta State University. He has authored numerous articles and presentations dealing with subjects ranging from management, digital libraries, organizational development, fund raising, diversity, and staff development. At Pitt, he is known as an innovative leader and has launched a number of wide ranging initiatives on campus and internationally. He has served on the Boards of ARL, PALCI, PALINET, and other professional organizations.Amy Knapp, Assistant University Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh's University Library Systems, holds an MA in English Literature, an MLS degree, and a Phd in Library Science all from the University of Pittsburgh. For several years before accepting her current position, she paid her dues and learned the realities of academic library work as Assistant Head of Database Searching and Coordinator of Library Instruction. Amy has taught classes in Information Retrieval and US Government Resources in the Graduate School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh for ten years. Her dissertation research focused on how faculty access US Federal Government documents in an electronic age. A long-time advocate of a user focus in academic libraries, she has published in the areas of faculty and student use of electronic resources and applications of LibQUAL+TM data to academic library planning and operations.

Recenzii

Academic libraries must change! This message appears in print regularly, usually accompanied by dire warnings of doom if change does not happen quickly. A similar message is found here, but this new book, coauthored by Wood, Rush Miller, and Amy Knapp, also provides lots of helpful advice on what kind of change is needed and how that change might be accomplished. They devote the first three chapters to background details on the need for change, along with an overview of managing change, including strategic planning, organizational development, marketing, and team-based organizations. The next four chapters describe organizational change at the University of Arizona and University of Pittsburgh libraries (Miller was the architect of Pitt's transformation), showing how various management concepts were applied to transform these organizations successfully. The final two chapters address assessment..Recommended for graduate and professional collections.
As technology developes and user needs evolve, many academic libraries discover themselves in a position either adapting and embracing new technology or remaining unchanged and stagnant..A welcome book, then, is Beyond Survival: Managing Academic Libraries in Transition, a companion guide for academic libraries in transition..In it, the authors detail why change is necessary for libraries, stating that refusal by libraries to change will condemn them to marginalization. The authors also provide a theoretical foundation useful for transitioning academic libraries and detailed, real-world examples of how certain academic libraries are evolving to meet new challenges in the 21st century.
Wood, Miller, and Knapp have produced an extremely useful volume that has something in it for most academic librarians..A careful study of the information presented in this book will help librarians chart that new course and continue to add quality to the educational experience. In fact, I am going to read this one again!
In recent years, libraries have heard that they are potentially an endangered species in their current incarnations. In Beyond Survival, the authors provide guidance and inspiration to academic libraries wanting to move past the status quo..[w]ell thought out and presented and is an excellent guide to academic libraries looking to embrace change.
[W]e need to fully embrace change, and adapt successful business models like strategic planning and organizational development in order to turn change into an opportunity. In addition to theory, authors Elizabeth J. Wood, Rush Miller and Amy Knapp provide detailed case studies on how libraries at the University of Arizona and the University of Pittsburgh managed the kind of transformative change needed to position the academic library for a vibrant future.
Although this book is written for librarians at large universities, it contains information useful to the many college librarians who are also experiencing the fallout and opportunities created by institutional, instructional, economic, technological, and social changes across higher education and culture in general. The authors provide a good discussion of the meanings and results of change in theory and practice, and they provide examples of how change has been managed at specific libraries. Readers will find cautions as well as possible actions to take to maintain the library and the position of the librarian within the educational enterprise as changes occur. The desired outcome is not just to survive but to enhance librarians' contributions to the institutions where they work.
Three library science scholars with business experience from U. of Michigan and U. of Pittsburgh borrow techniques from the business world to offer advice to managers of academic libraries undergoing changes compelled by both internal and external factors. Supported by case studies of two university libraries, chapters discuss the reasons for change, short term vs. long term solutions, the theoretical underpinnings of change, strategies for embedding and perpetuating alterations, the pros and cons of using teams, how to stand up to scrutiny and plan for the future, and barriers to change, among other topics.