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Refocusing Academic Libraries through Learning and Discourse
The Idea of a Library
Provides a radical vision of library transformation and practical solutions for transforming organizational and workflow structures in the future
Mary K. Bolin (Author)
9780323951104, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 17 November 2022
162 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 1 kg
Organizational Transformation in Academic Libraries: Discourse, Process, Product helps inform discussions in academic libraries on organizational patterns and divisions of labor. The book gives librarians leverage to think outside traditional bureaucratic structures and re-think how libraries serve their patrons. It examines existing structures and proposes new organizational models and lays out a process for planning organizational transformation and implementing a new organization. Seven chapters offer a radical vision of library transformation, proposing a collaborative process for changing academic libraries into organizations fit for the second quarter of the twenty-first century and beyond. Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures and globally disruptive events such as the current pandemic. As a result, practical solutions for transforming organizational and workflow structures for the future are desperately needed. The title analyzes existing organizational structures and proposes new ones that can be adapted to individual libraries. It discusses the challenges posed by virtual learning environments, digital initiatives and resources, changes to cataloging standards and succession planning, as well as changes brought about by the current pandemic.
1. Introduction
2. The Current Organizational Landscape
3. How Academic Library Organizations are Changing
4. Re-thinking and Re-imagining: A New Discourse and a New Process
5. New Models: Making the Most of People, Facilities, Budgets, Collections, and Relationships
6. Implementing a Transformed Organization
7. Conclusion
Subject Areas: Library, archive & information management [GLC], Library & information sciences [GL]
