Advances in Library Administration and Organization

Name: Advances in Library Administration and Organization
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ISBN: 9780762312979

ISBN-10: 0762312971

ISBN-13: 9780762312979

Edition: 2006

Authors: Edward D. Garten, Delmus E. Williams, James M. Nyce

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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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 430
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Contributors


Introduction


Understanding the Development of Disciplines and the Ways They Contribute to Knowledge and Reflect Practice: An Analysis of Articles Published in Higher Education and Library and Information Science



Regaining Place



Interactive Service and Professional Culture: Academic Reference Librarians in an Emerging Context



Academic Librarians' Views of the Chair's Professional Development Role



Mentoring Revisited



The Work Process of Research Librarians, Elicited Via the Abstraction-Decomposition Space



Library Management Education and Reality: A Clearer Connection



Innovative Library Programs for the Hispanic Population: Opportunities for the Public Library Administrator



Landscapes of Information and Consumption: A Location Analysis of Public Libraries in Calcutta



About the Authors


Author Index


Subject Index