Restructuring Academic Libraries

Restructuring Academic Libraries
Author: Charles A. Schwartz
Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Restructuring Academic Libraries: Organizational Development in the Wake of Technological Change is a collection of nineteen essays and case studies about the challenges libraries face today. It assesses a broad range of opportunities and achievements.

Strategic Planning for Academic Libraries

Strategic Planning for Academic Libraries
Author: Gregory C. Thompson
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838918937

Written by a team of authors with decades of library administration experience between them, this powerful resource enables academic libraries to produce plans that will offer directional guidance to employees while also demonstrating the library's power to meet institutional goals.

Cases on Research Support Services in Academic Libraries

Cases on Research Support Services in Academic Libraries
Author: Fernández-Marcial, Viviana
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1799845478

Academic libraries have traditionally had two key functions, to support teaching and to support research. In an evolving and competitive university environment, along with the emergence of various technologies and substantial changes in scientific communication, university management has reached a turning point. Academic libraries are facing a paradigm shift in the role they need to play to achieve the research objectives of universities. Research support services in academic libraries have evolved as a response to these changes. They are heterogeneous, adapt to their university culture, adopt different points of view, take different approaches in their organizational structures, and include a diverse catalog of activities. Having an overview of different experiences will allow libraries to adopt best practices, redefine services, and even establish new management and collaboration models. Cases on Research Support Services in Academic Libraries is a critical scholarly resource that uses case studies to systematize the experiences of research support services in academic libraries for the support of higher education faculty. The cases focus on such items as the role of technology and its impact as well as how these services help to improve the excellence of universities. Featuring a wide range of topics such as library services, data management, and open science, this book is ideal for librarians, academicians, professionals, researchers, and students.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking
Author: Robert C. Camp
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 104027739X

Written by Dr. Robert Camp, universally regarded as the founding father of the benchmark process, this bestseller is quite simply the definitive reference on the topic. Camp guides readers through the historic ten-step benchmarking process that he developed while at Xerox. This process is credited with reviving that company when it was floundering in 1979. Camp presents other examples of the process, including its dramatic application to L.L. Bean. He uses these examples to show managers how to relate benchmarking to their own circumstances and then provides them with expert strategy and tips so that they can efficiently and easily launch their own quest for best performance.

Managed Professionals

Managed Professionals
Author: Gary Rhoades
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780791437155

Focuses on the ongoing negotiations of professional autonomy and managerial discretion and provides insight into the broad restructuring of faculty, with conclusions that extend beyond unionized faculty to all of academe.

Research Handbook on Corporate Restructuring

Research Handbook on Corporate Restructuring
Author: Omar, Paul J.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2021-08-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786437473

This timely Research Handbook examines the increasingly economically vital topic of corporate restructuring. Reflecting a shift in the global approach to insolvency towards a focus on rescuing viable businesses rather than liquidation, chapters consider all areas of the law closely connected to corporate insolvency, rehabilitation and rescue, as well as the introduction of the EU Preventive Restructuring Directive and other reforms from around the world.

Catalysts for Change

Catalysts for Change
Author: Gisela M. von Dran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000757781

This book, first published in 1993, features the perspectives of library practitioners as well as other higher education professionals on using innovative management techniques. The book includes practical discussions of Total Quality Management, team management, the impact of gender differences, managing an older work force, and educational needs. Through this valuable book, library administrators will find the best methods for adapting management strategies to the major political upheaval, economic reprioritizing, and organizational restructuring that has been characteristic of this decade. They will benefit from the case studies and practical overview from professionals who have already experienced change in their own libraries. Some of the important topics covered by the contributors include: fostering the democratization of the workplace and the development of the staff through empowerment; proactive, assertive, and collaborative roles of libraries in the scholarly communication process; library management education that prepares professionals both to anticipate change and to bring about change in their institutions in response to societal needs and shifts; managing the academic library through teamwork; the possible impacts and implications of female leadership on the library profession; organizational change in research libraries; older workers in technical services; and using the budget as a planning tool.

Future Libraries

Future Libraries
Author: R. Howard Bloch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780520088115

""Future libraries" rassemble d'émérites avocats, historiens, informaticiens, linguistes, et architectes pour aborder le futur des bibliothèques, des livres et de l'écrit dans l'ère électronique.

Impact of Technology on Resource Sharing

Impact of Technology on Resource Sharing
Author: Thomas C Wilson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1993-04-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781560243915

Here is an outstanding critical analysis of the impact groundbreaking technologies, both new and established, have had on resource sharing in the information industry. It offers a unique opportunity to explore the possibilities of resource sharing in the electronic information age, beyond the narrow scope of interlibrary loan. This highly selective book not only assesses the technologies that have had a profound impact on resource sharing, it also considers the political, philosophical, social, financial, legal, managerial, and attitudinal issues they have affected. Technologies that hold great promise for revolutionizing interlibrary cooperation on various levels have been included in this important analysis. Impact of Technology on Resource Sharing fosters an in-depth understanding of these technologies by including chapters that range from descriptive analyses of particular projects to philosophical discussions of the challenges of change. It questions traditional assumptions while providing an opportunity to examine the practical technological options available to libraries today and in the near future. This thought-provoking book introduces beginning level library professionals to the changes technological innovations have caused in resource sharing. For more advanced professionals, it is a valuable review of several areas of technology and resource sharing including: CD-ROM union catalogs collection analysis using the OCLC/AMIGOS CD local integrated systems national bibliographic databases/utilities large-scale system interconnection Z39.50 Internet/NREN networking high schools political/social impediments to resource sharing financial issues of resource sharing history of library networking Public service, technical service, and systems librarians will gain a better understanding of technical issues in language that is easy to understand. Library administrators will benefit from the review of issues important to the management and decision making process for the future of interlibrary cooperation and sharing.