Library Management: Volume 26 Issue 6/7

Peer mentoring: one institution's approach to mentoring academic librarians

Aims to describe a peer‐mentoring program in one academic library and to provide suggestions and recommendations for setting up a similar program in other libraries.

Designing a successful library school field experience

To share the library school field experience paradigm that the authors developed after their successful participation as a supervisor and student.

Knowledge processes: A strategic foundation for the partnership between the university and its library

To explore the nature of the university's knowledge processes and to specify the library's role in these processes.

Strategic human resource development in public libraries in Botswana

The broad objective of this study was to present a model for strategic human resource management through an effective staff performance appraisal system in Botswana Public…

Sensemaking a public library's internet policy crisis

Using Weick's sensemaking theory within a KM framework, and storytelling methodology, this study aims to deconstruct a recent public internet access policy crisis at the newly…

Breaking a leg: going on stage with the educators

The purpose of the paper is to report on the experience of a library‐based Learning Support Unit at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). It examines the background to the…

Public libraries in Belfast and the Troubles, 1969‐1994

Seeks to investigate the extent to which public libraries in Belfast were affected by the Northern Ireland Troubles between 1969 and 1994.

The central role of leaders in public libraries

Aims to explore the topic of leadership as perceived and practised by public library leaders. Library leaders have a wide‐ranging impact on society but have been largely…

Risking knowledge management: An information audit of risk management activities within the Hobart City Council

To describe the process of conducting an information audit at the Hobart City Council and to demonstrate how the audit contributed to knowledge management at the Council.

Achieving readiness for organisational change

Seeks to ontinue discussion of the critical role of people in organisational change.

International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2003‐2004: Metadata Applications and Management

Measuring for Results: The Dimensions of Public Library Effectiveness

Essential Classification

Cooperative Reference: Social Interaction in the Workplace

Libraries without Walls 5:

The Concise AACR2 (4th ed.)

The Web Library. Building a World‐Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources