Library management. Volume 29, Number 1/2, Change management in academic libraries. 2

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerald Group Publishing, author, issuing body.

Series:

Business strategy series ; v. 9, no.1.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library administration.

Library science.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, England] : Emerald, 2008.

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; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-38527-1

9786611385279

1-84663-759-7

OCLC:

243707229