Advances in Library Administration and Organization

Delmus E. Williams, James M. Nyce, Janine Golden

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9781849505802
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

"The Advances in Library Administration and Organization Series" seeks to develop a body of research literature that contributes to the base of organizational theory upon which library administrators rely. Its mix of contributions to the literature of library administration and organization is intended to be both diverse and eclectic. The volume 28 provides a collection of thought-provoking articles on issues relating to problems library managers face and strategies in addressing those challenges. The topics covered in this volume include: managing change in research libraries; the agility of library consortia and its member libraries; the evaluation of reference services; developing a recruitment strategy for a diverse workforce; the evaluation of training and professional development programs; and, collective bargaining within faculty unions on college campuses. "Advances" is widely read by practitioners, library and information science graduate students, and those working in associated fields of information management, and remains the premier series in its area of coverage. This latest volume adds another significant contribution to the literature of library and information centre management.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Advances in Library Administration and Organization
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Librarians and the complexity of individual and organizational change: Case study findings of an emergent research library
• Chapter 2. An exploratory case study of leadership for organizational agility in a consortium of small private college libraries
• Chapter 3. Consortia activity in academic libraries: Anti-competitive or in the public good?
• Chapter 4. Why librarianship? An exploration of the motivations of ethnic minorities to choose library and information science as a career
• Chapter 5. An unrelenting need for training
• Chapter 6. Library faculty and collective bargaining: An exploration
• Chapter 7. Work in motion/assessment at rest: an attitudinal study of academic reference librarians - a case study at mid-size university (MSU A)
• About the authors
• Author Index