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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Connor, Stephen.

Series:

Library Management - Volume 28, Issue 8 & 9

Library management ; 28, no. 8/9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic libraries--Administration.

Academic libraries.

Library administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Emerald Insight, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 offering that service'. The conference will examin

Contents:

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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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-14383-9

9786611143831

1-84663-735-X

OCLC:

808677206