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Mathews, Brian – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
Are librarians preoccupied with the future? There are countless books, articles, blog posts, webinars, and conference presentations filled with speculation about what libraries will become. This is understandable with the emergence of new roles for libraries and librarians as we determine our identity across the digital landscape. This essay…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Administration, Librarians, Long Range Planning
Nitecki, Danuta A. – Library Quarterly, 2011
Purposeful assessment of space for the understanding and improvement of the academic library is a relatively new area of inquiry. This essay offers a framework to consider different factors affecting such an assessment and insights for undertaking a meaningful inquiry about the relationship of space to an academic library's evolving purpose as…
Descriptors: Library Role, Academic Libraries, Performance Factors, Space Classification
Kim, Taeock; Isaac, Frederick – 1988
This paper briefly describes the effects of changes instituted by new library administrators and discusses the roles of both upper and middle level library managers in the process of adapting to change. Suggestions based on the experience of the authors as new middle level managers at a time when extensive changes were occurring in a university…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Change, Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas)
Atkinson, Hugh C. – Library Journal, 1984
Discusses present and future changes in library organization and management resulting from increasingly smaller library units, use of electronics to support decentralized services, new management style, and interlibrary cooperatives. Three strategies for change--to accept change, to change change, to recognize that some things cannot be…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decentralization, Library Administration, Library Cooperation

Pettas, William; Gilliland, Steven L. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1992
Looks at the views of some of the seminal contributors to the development of conflict theory and then describes the broad range of library conflicts, the value and danger of those conflicts, and some techniques for lowering or raising the level of conflict. (14 references) (LAE)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bureaucracy, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution

Euster, Joanne R.; Solomon, Eric – Library Trends, 1994
A library director and a university professor of English, who has also served as acting director of the library, engage in a dialogue about the role of the interim or acting director. Although they bring quite different perspectives to the discussion, they agree on the fundamental role and responsibilities of the interim director. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Strategies, College Faculty
Kreamer, Jean – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1992
Discussion of format changes in libraries focuses on managing change and phasing out older formats. Standardization is addressed, and five considerations regarding format shifts are examined: aesthetics, audience, compatibility, costs, and copyright. (MES)
Descriptors: Change, Change Strategies, Futures (of Society), Information Technology

Lucier, Richard E.; Dooley, James F. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1985
Discusses cultural changes and the meaning of their relationship to medical libraries. Three possible strategies aimed toward creating environment where innovation and risk-taking are encouraged are discussed: create integrative organizational environment; assemble staffs whose collective competencies span necessary roles in innovation process;…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Innovation, Library Administration, Library Personnel

Jones, Patrick – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1995
Suggests steps in creating administrative support for serving young adults in public libraries. The steps are to determine what services are wanted, and where support is to come from; reasons for serving young adults and priority of library needs and wants; and strategies to generate support. (JMV)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Library Administration, Library Development, Library Planning
Murphy, Kurt R. – Library Administration & Management, 1991
Examines the role of marketing in the management of libraries. The role of public relations (PR) in the total marketing concept is discussed, surveys that have explored PR efforts in academic and public libraries are described, and changes affecting libraries that marketing efforts could help to manage are discussed. (seven references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Higher Education, Library Administration
Veaner, A. B. – 1980
This general discussion of adaptation of new technologies to the administration of libraries stresses the mismatch between the developmental pace of technology and the change adaptive capabilities of people, and advocates the participation of users in the planning and implementation of change. It explores the complexity factor in technology, the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Strategies, Costs, Library Administration

Tweed, Stephen C. – Special Libraries, 1984
Discusses two ways that perceptions concerning effectiveness of special libraries and information centers can be changed--change methods used to account for library financially and change provision of services to better meet users' needs. Seven steps for increasing real and perceived value of library to organization are proposed. (11 sources) (EJS)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Information Centers

Becker, Joseph – Special Libraries, 1983
As technology permeates the special library, new requirements will emerge to integrate staff, equipment, and systems and establish connections between information resources and people. Being library managers in special libraries of tomorrow means mastering fundamentals of cost accounting, strategic planning, technological change, and behavioral…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Futures (of Society), Librarians
Newhard, Robert – Library Administration & Management, 1991
Considers appropriate responses that public library leaders should be making in an environment of technological change. Topics discussed include the library mission and its role in dealing productively with change; library leadership in local government; community information; integrating technology into library management and operations; library…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Information Services, Feedback, Library Administration

Klobas, Jane E. – Electronic Library, 1990
Examines factors to be considered in the management of technological change in libraries and information services. The organizational climate for change is discussed, and factors to consider when developing a strategy for introducing a new product, service, or system are described, including leadership, goals, political processes, marketing, and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Leadership, Library Administration, Library Automation