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Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Using Scenarios for Future Visioning of a Distance Learning Library Service
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Casey, Anne Marie; Cawthorne, Jon E.; Citro, Kathleen – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2014
This article describes the use of scenarios as a tool to assist a large distance learning library service in its strategic planning. Through a description of the scenario process from beginning to end, the authors detail the steps that the library director and the consultant took initially; their missteps; and the successful conclusion. This study…
Descriptors: Library Services, Distance Education, Vignettes, Program Descriptions
Taking Library Leadership Personally
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Davis, Heather; Macauley, Peter – Australian Library Journal, 2011
This paper outlines the emerging trends for leadership in the knowledge era. It discusses these within the context of leading, creating and sustaining the performance development cultures that libraries require. The first step is to recognise that we all need to take leadership personally no matter whether we see ourselves as leaders or followers.…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility
Understanding Faculty Perceptions of the Future: Action Research for Academic Librarians
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Malenfant, Kara Josephine – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The intent of this study was to aid academic librarians in examining their perceptions of the future of higher education, engaging disciplinary faculty members to understand their views, and determining actions to take to shape the future. In this mixed methods study, scenarios about the future of higher education served as the basis for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Strategic Planning, Focus Groups
Marketing/Planning Library and Information Services. Second Edition.
Weingand, Darlene E. – 1999
In the first edition of this book, the concepts of marketing and planning library and information services were presented as effective managerial strategies. Several paragraphs from the introduction to the first edition are reproduced, with author commentary, in this edition as an affirmation that the message is still true. In this second edition,…
Descriptors: Information Services, Library Administration, Library Development, Library Services
The Changing Role of the Library Director: Fund-raising and the Academic Library.
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Martin, Susan K. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1998
With increased costs and decreased funding, it will be increasingly necessary for academic library directors to become heavily involved in fundraising, or development. Discussion includes systems development; funding sources; staffing and organization; and impacts of fundraising on the administration, staffing, and organization. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Fund Raising, Higher Education
Total Quality Management Implementation in Three Community College Libraries and/or Learning Resources Centers.
Byrd, Theresa S. – 1997
This study examines the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in the Library/Learning Resources Centers (LRC) of Columbia State Community College, Columbia, Tennessee; Delaware County Community College, Media, Pennsylvania; and Guilford Technical Community College, Greensboro, North Carolina. To place the LRCs' TQM experiences in proper…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Colleges, Learning Resources Centers, Library Administration