Books in the Advances in Library Administration and Organization series

This latest volume contains approaches from researchers around the world. The chapters explore such issues as skills-building and other professional development activities, changing demographic profiles of staff, changing modes of resource provision, succession planning, remote work, and planning for Linked Data.

Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a range of diverse and reflective essays to provide strategies that will be of value in addressing challenges faced by current and future library managers.

Volume 32 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a collection of studies which highlight up and coming issues that today's library managers and researchers face.

Suitable for librarians and library managers in academic institutions, this title covers advances in library administration and organization. It collects articles that draw upon practical situations to illustrate administrative principles.

Dealing with the subject of organizational theory and library administration, this title covers topics such as: managing change in research libraries; the agility of library consortia and its member libraries; the evaluation of reference services; and, developing a recruitment strategy for a diverse workforce. It is suitable for library students.

Includes important contributions to the field from the UK, Germany, and the United States that deal with the evolving role of the chief information officer, information ethics, library services at a distance, e-metrics, and continuous quality improvement.

This monograph is characterized by a focused eclecticism, informed by theory and reflection, and stretching the boundaries of practice. Included are papers from a symposium honouring the career of a distinguished practitioner, discussing the challenges facing the profession.

A collection of essays, designed to challenge working administrators and researchers to look more closely at their operations and consider again how they develop people and the organizations in which they work.

How does the disintegration of the Soviet system help us to understand the character of library and information institutions and practices within post-soviet space? This title brings together diverse reflective essays, reports and empirical analyses of the changing character of the post-soviet library world to address the question.

Provides a body of research literature that contributes to the base of organizational theory upon which library administrators rely. This title covers a variety of topics relating to the management of academic, and public and school libraries.

The book will examine the challenges that working administrators face and discusses how to enable them to look more closely at their operations and to reconsider how to develop people and the organizations in which they work. As in previous volumes of Advances in Library Administration and Organization, the studies outlined in the chapters of Vo

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization takes as its underpinning theme the whole subject of innovation in Library and Information Services. It considers the various types of innovation through case studies and exemplars both from within the LIS sector and other cognate industries and environments.

By showcasing the work of technical services, and the ground-breaking changes they have encountered, this edited collection provides readers with an opportunity to re-assess the opportunities and challenges for library administration, and to understand how libraries should be managed in the future.