Advances in library administration and organization. Vol. 23

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization is designed to help administrators meet the challenges of running organizations in an ambiguous climate. It leads with a paper that uses innovation theory and a communications model to track how LIS practitioners acquire the theoreti...

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Other Authors: Nyce, James M., Williams, Delmus Eugene., Garten, Edward D.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
Series: Advances in library administration and organization,
Subjects:
Language Arts & Disciplines > Library & Information Science > General.
Technology & Engineering > Civil > General.
Library, archive & information management.
Library administration.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781849504034 (electronic bk.) :
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 430 p.).

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245 0 0 |a Advances in library administration and organization.  |n Vol. 23  |h [electronic resource] /  |c edited by Edward D. Garten, Delmus E. Williams, James M. Nyce. 
260 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald,  |c 2006. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xii, 430 p.). 
490 0 |a Advances in library administration and organization,  |x 0732-0671 
500 |a Includes indexes. 
505 0 |a Theories in practice : theory functions and diffusion of innovation / Betsy Van der Veer Martens -- Contracting public library management to private vendors : the new public management model / Robert C. Ward, Michael Carpenter -- Career development directions for the public library middle level manager / Janine Golden -- Academic librarian's career choice / Jeff Luzius -- Will they stay or will they go? : predictors of academic librarian turnover / Linda K. Colding -- Case examination of decision-making factors : do faculty and librarians agree on criteria upon which to cancel journals? / James H. Walther -- Senior UK managers' identification of attributes of information assets / Joan Stenson -- Leadership and change : an intellectual journey / Jean Mulhern -- Counting performance : perceptions and resources of performance assessment in Florida public libraries / Larry Nash White -- Introduction / James M. Nyce. 
520 |a This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization is designed to help administrators meet the challenges of running organizations in an ambiguous climate. It leads with a paper that uses innovation theory and a communications model to track how LIS practitioners acquire the theoretical base required to undergird their efforts. This theoretical piece is followed by a very personal view of what knowledge one must acquire to succeed as a leader of libraries, offering a more practical view of how administrators develop. Then comes a set of papers that address very real problems - performance assessment and its impact, the question of whether it is profitable for communities to completely outsource public library operations, and then three separate articles that look at career paths for public and academic librarians and the retention of those people by organizations. On a different tack, another contributor looks at how libraries communicate with their clients while cutting journals to insure consumer confidence in the decision-making process of the library; subsequently developing a model for joint decision-making that should be of interest to our community. The final paper leaves the realm of the library and examines how public and private organizations in the United Kingdom manage information as an asset and how that affects their performance in the marketplace. As in past volume, this edition of ALAO includes an eclectic collection of strong papers that convey the results of kind of research that managers need, mixing theory with a good dose of pragmaticism. The result should add value to the literature. It addresses theoretical and practical issues administrators face in ambiguous environments and presents an eclectic collection of papers that reflect the myriad challenges library administrators face everyday. 
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650 7 |a Library, archive & information management.  |2 bicssc 
650 0 |a Library administration. 
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