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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Library administrators"”.
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Academic Library Succession Planning in the University of California (UC) System
<p>The Library and Information Science (LIS) literature has made clear that academic libraries in the U.S. have experienced decades of hiring freezes and budget cuts that reduced staffing overall and eliminated many middle management positions. Consequently, now that baby boomer library managers …
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Disciplinary Differences Between Faculty in Library Use and Perceptions
… faculty use or perceptions in relation to the library. In many institutions, liaisons reject the results and recommendations of these studies as not generalizable to their specific situation and instead are reactive, responding to the immediate needs of the most vocal individual faculty members …
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Transmitting Whiteness: Librarians, Children, and Race, 1900-1930s
<p>In the wake of the public library movement in the southern United States during the early twentieth century, local librarians began providing library services for those whom they deemed to be their most valuable resources, children. Representatives of a new profession, children’s librarians …
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Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership
… recognized as an area of inquiry in the field of library and information studies. Indeed, the literature on academic libraries is only now beginning to address the topic. None of this should be surprising because leadership, in general, continues to be an under-discussed topic in the library and …
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Overdue, returned, and missing: the changing stories of Boston's Chinatown Branch Library
In 1896, the Boston Public Library (BPL) opened a reading room on Tyler Street in between the South End and Chinatown. Since then, the library has disappeared and reappeared in various forms in Chinatown for different reasons. In 1956, the City of Boston demolished the Tyler Street Branch Library …
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A Temporal Model of Mindful Interactions Around New Service Conception
… by three case organizations - two public library systems and one library consortium - served as the units of analysis. The model that emerged from the data - a "Temporal Model of Mindful Interactions Around New Service Conception" - depicts library administrators as active producers of new …
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A comparative study of organisational structure changes in higher education institutions libraries between UK and Taiwan
… be managed more efficiently. It is necessary for library administrators to evaluate their organisational structures in order to meet their customers' rising expectation and parent institutions' vision, mission, and strategy for future development. The purpose of this study was to examine the …
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An exploratory study of the relationship between academic library work experience and perceptions of leadership skill development relevant to academic library directorship
Though research into academic library director leadership has established leadership skills and qualities required for success, little research has been done to establish where in their career library directors were most likely to acquire those skills and qualities. This research project surveyed …