Library Management: Volume 25 Issue 6/7

Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries?

Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Technologies predicts that mainstream organisations and industries can be made obsolete by new technologies that change the whole paradigm of…

Strategic plans and long‐range plans: is there a difference?

An analysis of both form and content differences between the plans named “strategic” and those named “long‐range”. Planning theory is checked against the planning reports…

The power of influence: what affects public library staff's attitudes to the Internet?

The characteristics of public library staff, which affect attitudes to the Internet, are considered based on the results of a PhD study. Data generated from a survey of more than…

Current situation and future development of CALIS

China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), funded primarily by the Chinese Government, is a nationwide academic library consortium in China. As one of the two public…

A smart place in the sun: future‐proofing the Queensland Government Libraries Consortium

The Queensland Government Libraries Consortium can claim to be one of Australia's more successful special library consortia in recent years, with a stable core membership of 14…

On the cat‐walk: WIT libraries learning support model

The need for learning support programmes in academic libraries is discussed. The development and progress of WIT Libraries programme, from its origin in 1996 to its present day…

Content in institutional repositories: a collection management issue

Many libraries are facing the challenges to develop and manage an institutional repository. This paper addresses the issue of content in repositories, and suggests that librarians…

Managing fee‐based public library services: values and practices

This article reports the results on a particular management issue of a recent Danish qualitative interview survey on experiences with fee‐based public library services. It also…

Management musings 18: organisations as families, happy or otherwise

Ponders whether more bosses should treat their staff as they would their family members. Many bosses treat their workforce in much the same way as buildings or equipment – to be…

Continuing professional development and workplace learning 9: human resource development: measuring return on investment

Outlines several frameworks for the evaluation of human resource development programs: the return on investment model, the cost/benefit ratio approach, and bottom‐line evaluation.

Information Strategy in Practice

Charleston Conference Proceedings 2002

High‐level Subject Access Tools and Techniques in Internet Cataloguing

Staying Legal: A Guide to Issues and Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors

The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve and Protect