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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792908303321

Titolo

The LITA leadership guide : the librarian as entrepreneur, leader, and technologist / / editors, Carl Antonucci, Sharon Clapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2017]

ISBN

1-4422-7901-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Library Information Technology Association (LITA) guides.

Disciplina

023

Soggetti

Library personnel management

Academic libraries - Personnel management

Library administors - Training of

Academic librarians - Training of

Libraries - Information technology

Librarians - Effect of technological innovations on

Leadership

Entrepreneurship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Leadership -- What it means to be a leader in academic libraries in the 21st century / Bradford Lee Eden -- From a transactional to relational model : redefining public services via a roving pilot program at the Georgia Tech Library / Emy Nelson Decker, Marlee Givens and Bruce Henson -- Leading changes in library as an architect of technology infrastructure / Hong Ma -- Part 2. Entrepreneurship -- The entrepreneurial spirit lives in librarians / Mary G. Scanlon & Michael A. Crumpton -- The end of the world as we've known it : disruptive innovation in an academic library / Rebecca Bichel and C. Heather Scalf -- Creating spaces for innovation in the workplace / Michael Rodriguez -- Part 3. Technology -- The promise and perils of open-source / Junior Tidal -- Early adoption, early abandonment : parallel problems in promoting new technology / Caitlin A. Bagley -- A model to align technology with strategy and structure in academic libraries / Harish Maringanti.

Sommario/riassunto

The LITA Leadership Guide will help librarians at every level of the



career ladder and will supplement leadership and skill-based training workshops. Library leadership teams interested in the development of their staff as a means of improving their organizational performance will find it to provide context for growth, training, and collaboration.