Book description
Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural environment. The book is written by leaders in the field who have real world experience with transformational change and thought-provoking ideas for the future of research libraries, academic librarianship, research collections, and the changing nature of global scholarship within a higher education context.- Authors are leaders in the research libraries field from a variety of countries
- Thought provoking chapters will help guide research library transformation globally
- Contains a diversity of thinking on research librarianship in the 21st century
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of figures and tables
- About the authors
- Chapter 1: Transforming research libraries: an introduction
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Part 1: Framing the Twenty First-Century Research Library
- Chapter 2: Advancing from Kumbaya to radical collaboration: redefining the future research library
- Chapter 3: Will universities still need libraries (or librarians) in 2020?
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Chapter 4: Transforming research libraries: Piano, piano, si va lontano
- Starting at the top
- Leading organizational transformations
- An enabling vision
- Creating opportunities for others to do the right things
- The acquisition of knowledge, professional networks, and partners
- Transformative, collaborative priorities
- The continuing involvement of the user community
- Piano, piano, si va lontano: toward lasting transformations
- Chapter 5: The transformation of academic libraries in China
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Part 2: Organization and the University Context
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Chapter 6: Organizational and strategic alignment for academic libraries
- Introduction
- The strategy focused organization
- Aligning strategies to performance
- Strategic alignment in the academic environment
- Strategic alignment for academic libraries
- Organizational alignment for libraries
- Organizational and strategic alignment for libraries – the leadership challenge
- Acknowledgements
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Chapter 7: Building key relationships with senior campus administrators
- Introduction
- About McMaster University
- Human performance technology
- Systems theory
- Applying the HPT model, phase one: performance analysis
- Phase two: cause analysis
- Phase three: intervention (selection and implementation)
- Phase four: evaluation
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Interview questions
- Appendix B: Focus groups
- Appendix C: Web survey questions
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Chapter 6: Organizational and strategic alignment for academic libraries
- Part 3: Partners and Collaborative Environments
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Part 4: Creating Accessible and Enduring Scholarship
- Chapter 10: New modes of scholarly communication: implications of Web 2.0 in the context of research dissemination
- Chapter 11: Coming home: scholarly publishing returns to the university
- Chapter 12: Confronting challenges of documentation in the digital world: the Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas
- Index
Product information
- Title: Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2010
- Publisher(s): Chandos Publishing
- ISBN: 9781780630380
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