Library Management in Disruptive Times: Skills and Knowledge for an Uncertain Future

doi:10.29085/9781783302369

Library Management in Disruptive Times

Skills and Knowledge for an Uncertain Future

Library Management in Disruptive Times identifies the key skills and attitudes needed by the library leaders of today and tomorrow and delivers a balanced view of the future of the profession. Contributed to by expert professional library leaders and educators from across the globe, this edited collection offers thought-provoking perspectives on the challenge of the current operating environment across a range of library sectors, library professional associations and geographic regions. Each author brings their own particular area of expertise and perspective on to consider the effects of disruptive change in libraries globally.

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Library Management in Disruptive Times

Skills and Knowledge for an Uncertain Future

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-xii

Introduction
pp xiii-xvi

1 - Leading change: knowledge for success
pp 1-20

2 - Management fads and fashions and their impact on the LIS community
pp 21-36

3 - The Five Rules of Engagement for librarians: aux Ranganathan's laws of library science
pp 37-50

4 - Library management, disruption and consortia: an Australian example
pp 51-64

5 - No regrets; just lessons: economic crisis is changing our life and the management of libraries
pp 65-84

6 - Introducing agile principles and management to a library organization
pp 85-100

7 - The role of professional associations in changing times
pp 101-118

8 - And the walls came tumbling down ... The library profession confronts all-invasive new managerialism
pp 119-140

9 - What is behind the meaning of disruption? Or, thinking of management strategies from the outside
pp 141-154

Index
pp 155-158

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