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While librarianship in general has had to respond to constant
revolutionary change, technical services have faced much more
immediate challenges, having nearly been completely reimagined in
the 21st century. 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. Including
thirteen chapters from a variety of libraries, this collection
examines several aspects of technical services work in the 21st
century. The authors offer thoughtful applied theoretical solutions
to practical problems encountered by library administrators and
managers in four broad categories: planning and assessment,
workflows, data, and acquisitions. Geared at library managers and
administrators, readers of this volume may understand new trends in
technical services work, how previous structures and workflows fit
in and are evolving, and the new ways that in which we might
describe, assess and carry out what we do in libraries.
Libraries have recently begun doing more to support
entrepreneurship and innovation within their communities.
Makerspaces and business incubators have become featured
attractions in public and academic libraries and provide a unique
way to reach out to a user group that can bolster a community in
dynamic ways. In this volume of Advances in Library Administration
and Organization, we delve beyond examples and case studies to look
at how library leaders can develop support for innovation and
entrepreneurship within their libraries and within the profession.
Chapters include examinations of design thinking and space
planning, staffing, mission statements, and makerspaces. The
contributors to this volume cover libraries and their activities in
North America, Europe and Africa, and also discuss professional
development in entrepreneurship topics as well as support of
innovation. Libraries are increasing support of entrepreneurship
and innovation across the board, and this volume will position
administrators and managers of libraries to better understand
what's happening, and how to bring it into their own institutions.
Librarianship may be said to be facing an identity crisis. It may
also be said that librarianship has been facing an identity crisis
since it was proposed as a profession. With the advent of
technology that lowers barriers to the access of information, the
mission of a library has become indistinct. This volume will
explore the current purpose of librarianship and libraries, how we
become "Masters of our Domains", develop expertise in various
elements of the profession, and how we extend outward into our
communities.
An important component of library administration and organization
in the modern age is managing projects. Once the realm of
technology and business gurus, formal project management tools,
techniques and schemas have become more commonplace in libraries.
Using formal project management components can help libraries
achieve their desired outcomes with less stress for employees.
However, there can be an entry barrier to project management, since
the concepts are still somewhat out of the range of the usual
library administration experience. This volume of Advances in
Library Administration and Organization attempts to put project
management into the toolboxes of library administrators through
overviews of concepts, analyses of experiences, and forecasts for
the use of project management within the profession.
Emotions are prevalent in the library workplace leading to many
questions and areas of analysis worth exploring. For example, what
tools for developing emotional intelligence are used effectively in
library workplaces? How can emotional labor be managed to minimize
the negative effects of emotion work? How can library employees
express authentic emotions while still adhering to service
expectations? How does dispositional affect how one experiences
emotions - influence relationships in the workplace? What role does
emotion play in effective as well as ideal library leadership and
management? In this volume, we consider how emotions or related
concepts such as affect, mood, or discrete feelings intersect with
library administration. Offering eleven chapters ranging through
inward reflection to outward practice, fourteen authors explore how
theory has been applied in the study of emotion in the library
workplace and provide a look at future trends in the area. Library
managers will take away increased knowledge about how the library
workplace can and should operate with consideration toward emotion,
and will glean ideas for implementation with their own staff and
services.
Libraries are dealing with unprecedented changes on several fronts:
technological developments, funding difficulties, and an increasing
need to prove themselves to a demanding population. These factors
understandably impact physical library space. Looking toward the
future, what changes can we expect to see in how libraries use
space. This volume of Advances in Library Administration and
Organization (ALAO) will focus on the future of library spaces.
ALAO offers long-form research, comprehensive discussions of
theoretical developments, and in-depth accounts of evidence-based
practice library administration and organization. The series aims
to answer the questions "How have libraries been managed and how
should they be managed?" It goes beyond a platform for the sharing
of research to provide a venue for dialogue across issues, in a way
that traditional peer reviewed journals cannot. Through this series
practitioners can glean new approaches in challenging times and
collaborate on the exploration of scholarly solutions to
professional quandaries.
Librarianship has always had links with critical theory. As a
public service, libraries cannot be separated from the society they
exist in, and investigating the aspects of the culture they exist
in is an important responsibility for all library and information
professionals. In this exciting exploration of critical
librarianship, expert authors from different walks of life
investigate a variety of areas of librarianship in regards to
critical theory. With chapters on feminist theory, sustainability
and social justice, inclusivity, autism, and new motherhood, among
others, this volume of Advances in Librarianship focuses on some of
the most relevant issues of the 21st Century. With rigorous
scholarship and diverse voices, Critical Librarianship is an
unmissable volume of current research for all library and
information professionals and researchers.
The latest volume of Advances in Library Administration and
Organization, contains approaches from researchers around the
world. Sourced in management theory and hands-on practice, 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. New approaches
to student staffing are examined, along with the relationship of
library work to topics such as emotional intelligence and positive
organizational behavior. Several chapters put forth research and
case study information regarding methods for dealing with
large-scale changes in library staffing with regard to budget,
space, and mode of information delivery. The work as a whole
addresses sustainability issues in library staffing both regarding
the day-to day work of libraries and in planning for the future.
Library Staffing for the Future provides the reader with a thorough
look at relevant staffing issues for libraries today and going
forward, and provides advice and information grounded in the
theoretical as well as the practical.
As more associations struggle with limited professional development
funding, the opportunities for library and information experts to
advance their skills are being examined in a more effective and
cost-efficient manner. Revolutionizing the Development of Library
and Information Professionals: Planning for the Future examines the
future of library professional development by investigating the
aspects that make these development events worthwhile. This book is
essential for library association personnel, educational
institutions, and management personnel in large library systems to
aid in determining future trends in professional development
opportunities for their staff.
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