Advances in library administration and organization, Vol. 23

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization is designed to help administrators meet the challenges of running organizations in an ambiguous climate. It leads with a paper that uses innovation theory and a communications model to track how LIS practitioners acquire the theoreti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nyce, James M.
Other Authors: Williams, Delmus Eugene, Garten, Edward D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2006
Series:Advances in library administration and organization
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Theories in practice : theory functions and diffusion of innovation / Betsy Van der Veer Martens
  • Contracting public library management to private vendors : the new public management model / Robert C. Ward, Michael Carpenter
  • Career development directions for the public library middle level manager / Janine Golden
  • Academic librarian's career choice / Jeff Luzius
  • Will they stay or will they go? : predictors of academic librarian turnover / Linda K. Colding
  • Case examination of decision-making factors : do faculty and librarians agree on criteria upon which to cancel journals? / James H. Walther
  • Senior UK managers' identification of attributes of information assets / Joan Stenson
  • Leadership and change : an intellectual journey / Jean Mulhern
  • Counting performance : perceptions and resources of performance assessment in Florida public libraries / Larry Nash White
  • Introduction / James M. Nyce