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Social capital and leadership in academic libraries: the broader exchange around “Buy In”
Timothy M. SchlakThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of social capital to the literature on academic libraries as it pertains to leadership and management as well as to…
Investigations about new methods of library marketing in Chinese “985” Project Universities
Xiaoqin Hua, Li Si, Xiaozhe Zhuang, Wenming XingUnder the new technological environment, academic libraries meet an extremely intense competition in offering information services, and marketing becomes an important means to…
Knowledge transferred through organizational stories: a typology
Monica Colon-AguirreThe purpose of this study is to look at organizational stories shared among academic librarians who work at the reference desk, and create a typology of the stories based on the…
Succession planning process that includes visible minority librarians
Maha KumaranThe purpose of this paper is to stress the importance of including visible minority librarians in the process of succession planning in academic libraries. In Canada visible…
Quantifying patron time-use of a public library
John Shepherd, Kaitlyn Vardy, Allan WilsonThis paper summarizes a time-diary study of a Canadian public library that estimated the hours spent by patrons using library facilities and circulated collections during a month…
Competencies for public library managers: diversity in practice
Mary Wilkins Jordan– The purpose of this paper is to identify competencies in common across public library managers.
Endangers culture heritage: A survey of disaster management planning in Middle East libraries and archives
Laila Hussein MoustafaThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey sent to librarians and archivists in national and academic libraries in the Middle East and North Africa and the…
Keeping the score: Outreach services and collaboration for academic music libraries in financially straitened times
Petros A. Kostagiolas, Charilaos Lavranos, Konstantina Martzoukou, Joseph PapadatosThe purpose of this paper is to study the role of academic music libraries in financially straitened times. The academic music library aims to cover the information needs of the…
What do acquisition activities really cost? A case study in Estonian university libraries
Kate-Riin KontThe purpose of this paper is to mainly find out how well is time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) suits for a university library setting in Estonia. For this purpose, all…
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