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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784751803321

Titolo

Library management . Volume 29, Number 1/2 Change management in academic libraries . 2 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bradford, England], : Emerald, 2008

[Bradford, England] : , : Emerald, , 2008

ISBN

1-281-38527-1

9786611385279

1-84663-759-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Collana

Library management ; ; v. 29, no. 1/2

Disciplina

025.1/977

025.1977

Soggetti

Library administration

Library science

Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Strategic competence: to soar above; People management - be bold!; Relationships and engagement; Librarians do fly: strategies for staying aloft; 2010: a library odyssey; Digital nature and digital nurture: libraries, learning and the digital native; Academic reference librarians prepare for change: an Australian case study; The transit lounge: a view of organisational change from a point in the journey; Wa! The wu wei academic librarian; Dangerous liaisons?; Theory, research, and practice in library management 4: creativity; Book reviews

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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