Library Management in Disruptive Times
eBook - PDF

Library Management in Disruptive Times

Skills and knowledge for an uncertain future

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Library Management in Disruptive Times

Skills and knowledge for an uncertain future

About this book

Is the traditional library business model a victim of disruptive digital technologies?
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.
Key topics covered include:

  • Leading change
  • Management fads and their impact on libraries
  • User engagement
  • The value of collaboration and consortia
  • Library management and the global economic crisis Agile management techniques
  • The role of professional associations in redefining the profession
  • Developing management skills on the job
  • Planning for the future.

This dynamic collection helps readers to envision the purpose and value of future libraries and to see change as a rare opportunity to create truly new roles for librarians.
Readership: This will be essential reading for library managers, directors and aspiring leaders throughout the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Contents
  3. CHAPTER 1 Leading change: knowledge for success
  4. CHAPTER 2 Management fads and fashions and their impact on the LIS community
  5. CHAPTER 3 The Five Rules of Engagement for librarians: aux Ranganathan’s laws of library science
  6. CHAPTER 4 Library management, disruption and consortia: an Australian example
  7. CHAPTER 5 No regrets; just lessons: economic crisis is changing our life and the management of libraries
  8. CHAPTER 6 Introducing agile principles and management to a library organization
  9. CHAPTER 7 The role of professional associations in changing times
  10. CHAPTER 8 And the walls came tumbling down … The library profession confronts all-invasive new managerialism
  11. CHAPTER 9 What is behind the meaning of disruption? Or, thinking of management strategies from the outside
  12. Index