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Changing Leadership: A Longitudinal Study of Decision-Making by Academic Library Leaders
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John J. Meier – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This paper presents the results of thirty-seven interviews of senior library leaders at American Association of University (AAU) institutions conducted in Spring 2023. The author replicated a 2016 study from "portal," revealing an increased focus on strategic plan-based decision-making along with new priorities of open scholarship and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Library Administration, Administrator Attitudes
The Future of Academic Libraries: Conversations with Today's Leaders about Tomorrow
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Meier, John J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
To determine how academic library leaders make decisions about their organization's future and how they effect changes, the author interviewed 44 university librarians and deans from institutions belonging to the Association of American Universities (AAU). The author analyzed the interviews using content analysis to identify the most frequent…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Trend Analysis, Library Administration, Librarian Attitudes
Evidence-Based Library Management: The Leadership Challenge
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Lakos, Amos – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
This paper is an extension of the author's earlier work on developing management information services and creating a culture of assessment in libraries. The author will focus observations on the use of data in decision-making in libraries, specifically on the role of leadership in making evidence-based decision a reality, and will review new…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Information Technology
Automation Planning and Organizational Change: A Functional Model for Developing a Systems Plan.
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Drabenstott, Jon – Library Hi Tech, 1985
A library automation plan must not only produce an optimum system, but prepare staff, institution, and clientele for far-reaching change. This change can be accommodated by a functional model consisting of three phases: organization and overview; project expansion; project consolidation and preparation of system plan. Twenty-eight references are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning
Reorganizing the Clemson University Libraries.
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Boykin, Joseph F., Jr.; Babel, Deborah B. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1993
Describes organizational changes made at the Clemson University Libraries. Highlights include the creation of a task force that consulted library personnel, faculty, support staff, and students; changes in the administrative structure; greater employee involvement; changes in the decision-making process; and increased cooperation and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperation, Decision Making
The Management of Technical Innovation in Libraries. Proceedings of a Conference (London, England, April 23, 1980).
Loughborough Univ. of Technology (England). Dept. of Library and Information Studies. – 1981
These four papers presented at the Polytechnic of Central London School of Management focus on the management of technical innovation in libraries as it affects decision making, library organization, non-systems staff, and interlibrary cooperation. Procedures for implementing automation in a library are outlined: a system analysis and costing of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Innovation, Library Administration, Library Automation
Team Organization-Learning Organization: The University of Arizona Four Years into It.
Bender, Laura J. – Information Outlook, 1997
Describes reorganization at the University of Arizona Library that changed from a vertical organization to a horizontal organization. Highlights include focusing on customer needs; administration and staff organization; strategic long-range planning; decentralized decision making; principles of the learning organization; internal assessment plans;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education