Library Management: Volume 30 Issue 4/5

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Benchmarking quality systems in two European academic libraries

Núria Balagué, Jarmo Saarti

The purpose of the paper is to benchmark two ISO 9001:2000 based quality management systems, one in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and the other in Kuopio…

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Managing university libraries: A cross Australian/UK study of second tier managers in university libraries

Graham Walton, Liz Burke, Margaret Oldroyd

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the management function of second tier posts in both Australia and the UK university libraries, including the identification of trends…

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Strategic planning and management for the public libraries: The case of Greek central public libraries

Petros A. Kostagiolas, Christina Banou, Evangelia‐Maria Laskari

The purpose of the paper is twofold: to provide an overview of the present situation at the Greek central public libraries and to identify strategic development areas in regard to…

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Needed competencies for collection managers and their development: Perceptions of university librarians

Kanwal Ameen

This paper aims to discover perceptions of university librarians regarding the needed competencies for collection managers in Pakistan in the emerging digital paradigm.

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Librarian interrupted! Ur‐librarian to un‐librarian, or ur‐librarian to uber‐librarian?

Colin Storey

The purpose of this paper is to address the dangers and opportunities for a highly trained group of professionals – librarians – in responding to the present and future…

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Auditing the library's quality system

Núria Balagué

The purpose of the paper is to describe the main features of a university library quality management system, focusing specially on internal auditing.

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The innovative university library: strategic choice, construction practices and development ideas

Guo Jing, Chen Jin

The purpose of this paper is to propose the strategic choice of innovative university library, including its definitions, structure framework. As a case study, the construction…

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The information commons at Sichuan University Jiang'an Library: A case study from China

Leye Yao, Liu Liu, Na Cai

This paper aims to give a snapshot of planning, building and developing the information commons at a comprehensive research university library in China. It seeks to frame and…

Prioritizing academic library service quality indicators using fuzzy approach: Case study: libraries of Ferdowsi University

Reza Jamali, Hossein Sayyadi Tooranloo

Fuzzy logic provides a useful tool for dealing with decisions in which the phenomena are imprecise and vague. The purpose of this paper is to prioritize the library service…

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Theory, research, and practice in library management 6: Managing uncertainty through scenario planning

Graham Walton

The purpose of this paper is to explore how uncertainty as a concept is being faced in many areas of work (including libraries). The use of scenario planning in managing this…

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Cover of Library Management

ISSN:

0143-5124

Online date, start – end:

1979

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Mr Steve O'Connor