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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777025003321

Titolo

Library management . Volume 28, Number 8/9 Change management in academic libraries . 1 [[electronic resource] /] / editor Stephen O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, : Emerald Insight, c2007

ISBN

1-281-14383-9

9786611143831

1-84663-735-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

Library management ; ; 28, no. 8/9

Altri autori (Persone)

O'ConnorStephen

Disciplina

026

Soggetti

Academic libraries - Administration

Library administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Introduction; A prototype twenty-first century university library; From flying solo to playing as a team; The right staff from X to Y; Treasuring our traditions and our people; Brain drain or tap the strengths; Communicating the library: librarians and faculty in dialogue; Managing change in the Hong Kong library environment; Promoting information literacy skills through web-based instruction; Why us? Arranged marriage: libraries and computer centers; Creating a new library for Macquarie University: are we there yet?

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Sommario/riassunto

Papers in this e-book are selected from the excellent conference held in Hong Kong titled 'Academic Librarian; dinosaur or Phoenix?' The conference was organized by and held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in April 2007. The title of the conference was drawn from a paper written some years earlier by Colin Steele who was, at that time, the University Librarian at the Australian National University in Canberra. As the conference literature indicated: "...the basic premise: 'a library service and its future are only as assured as the people



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