Library Management: Volume 17 Issue 4

Academic franchising: some pointers for improving practice

Deborah Goodall

Academic franchising has provided opportunities for many thousands of students who would otherwise have been excluded from higher education. Yet, despite the continued presence of…

The management implications of performance discrepancy in a library organization

Benki S.H. Womboh

Performance discrepancy (PD) is capable of adversely affecting the goals of a library organization. Discusses managerial implications and effects of PD. Library managers are in…

The enneagram and the library

Leslie R. Morris, Sharon F. Cramer

The enneagram (pronounced any‐a‐gram, a Greek word for a nine‐sided shape) is a psychological theory that was introduced to the USA in the 1960s. Use of the enneagram for the…

Librarians: peacemakers in the new electronic world

Graham Cornish

Publishers and libraries serve and rely on the same community to produce and use materials. They need to work together to solve the problems of access, security, payment and…

Building a new university library in Ljubljana

Marko Music

Describes the need for the new building of the National and University Library and Central Technological Library of the University in Ljubljana. Describes the project of the…