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Angela Jones-Evans – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
This paper examines the impact of process mapping on the management of change in an academic library in a UK higher education institution. Book ordering has been highlighted by a group of subject librarians as being time-consuming and inefficient, detracting from their ability to respond to new challenges and opportunities. An action research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Franks, Janet E.; Asher, Darla C. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2014
University libraries have had to provide acceptable noise levels for many years and this pressure has not diminished in the twenty-first century. Library space has to be utilized to ensure noise levels are best managed. A study was undertaken across four university libraries in South Florida to determine how universities utilized their limited…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Library Policy
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Wilson, Andrew M. – Journal of Access Services, 2014
As access services emerges as a discrete discipline within the field of librarianship, opportunities for access services librarians to meet and discuss the issues facing today's libraries continue to grow. One annual meeting that has attracted less attention over the years is the Ivies + Access Services Symposium. Held at various member…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Library Services, Library Research, Communities of Practice
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Paton-Ash, Margie; Wilmot, Di – South African Journal of Education, 2015
There is no national policy for school libraries which compels school governing bodies and principals to have a library in their schools. It is thus not surprising that in 2011, only 21% of state schools had libraries, only 7% had stocked libraries and 79% of schools had no library at all (Department of Basic Education (DBE) Republic of South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Libraries, Barriers, Performance Factors
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Bowman, Adam C. – Journal of Access Services, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the adaptive measures that academic libraries perform when implementing and operating a 24-hour schedule. Five in-depth interviews were conducted with current managerial-level librarians at 24-hour academic libraries. The exploratory interviews revealed similar measures for security, budgeting, employee…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Scheduling, Interviews, Librarian Attitudes
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Todorinova, Lily; Huse, Andy; Lewis, Barbara; Torrence, Matt – Public Services Quarterly, 2011
Declining reference statistics, diminishing human resources, and the desire to be more proactive and embedded in academic departments, prompted the University of South Florida Library to create a taskforce for re-envisioning reference services. The taskforce was charged with examining the staffing patterns at the desk and developing…
Descriptors: Interviews, Reference Services, Library Services, Decision Making
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
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Brose, Friedrich K. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2005
This paper describes the many difficulties of a newly founded satellite branch library to evolve into an independent college library within sixteen years. Changing roles and priorities are discussed, as well as the influence of the accrediting agency on this small California community college library. (Contains 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Private Colleges, College Libraries, Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Evaluation
Carterette, Pat – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1994
Describes Ohio's Library Leadership 2000 (LL2000) institute, an intensive leadership training program for Ohio librarians designed to provide effective leadership skills necessary for use in a rapidly changing environment. A sidebar lists the LL2000 mentors. (JLB)
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Training, Librarian Attitudes, Librarians
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Butcher, Karyle S.; Kinch, Michael P. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1990
Describes issues raised during a major reorganization and consolidation of reference services at Oregon State University. Attitudes of reference librarians and library administrators are reported, steps involved in the reorganization are outlined, and reactions from faculty are discussed with emphasis on the need for cooperation between librarians…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, College Faculty, Higher Education
Baumbach, Donna – MultiMedia Schools, 1998
Describes seven "habits" for effective school library media specialists: (1) Be proactive; (2) Begin with the end in mind; (3) Put first things first; (4) Think win/win; (5) Seek first to understand, then to be understood; (6) Synergize (get students, teachers, administrators, community members to work cooperatively); and (7) Sharpen the saw (take…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Librarian Attitudes, Librarians, Library Administration
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Rieh, Soo Young – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1999
Reviews the literature on academic library reference service, and examines changes in the traditional reference desk model. Based on the review from the perspectives of managers, librarians, and users, new research directions are proposed in which users' information-search processes and librarians' intervention in reference service are integrated.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Attitudes, Change, Higher Education
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Jacobs, Neil; Morris, Anne – Education for Information, 1999
The eLib-funded FIDDO (Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options) project provides library managers/others with information to support policy decisions. Senior libraries were interviewed about the future of document delivery and interviews were analyzed with the support of NUD*IST (Nonnumerical Unstructured Data by Indexing, Searching and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Document Delivery, Electronic Libraries
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Norman, Carolyn F.; Siminitus, Jackie – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2005
"Conversations with California Community College Librarians" is a snapshot in time at a time when colleges are swelling with new students, technology is surging ahead, and campus revenues are not keeping pace with growth or modernization needs. College library collections and services are increasingly technology-dependent. College…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Libraries, Educational Technology, Library Networks
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Finnerty, Colleen – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2005
The shift in policy from market driven behaviour towards a more cooperative tertiary sector is having an effect on New Zealand academic libraries and their relationships. Despite this, there has been no investigation of collaboration specifically targeting New Zealand tertiary libraries. This research project examine the state of collaboration…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Foreign Countries, Librarian Attitudes
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