Library Management: Volume 30 Issue 8/9

Looking beyond the horizon: Founding an executive leadership program for senior library managers in Australasia

This paper aims to provide an overview of the inaugural CAVAL Horizon Executive Leadership Program from the commencement of planning in 2006 through to the graduation of the first…

Education and continuing professional development for Indonesian academic librarians: A survey

This paper aims to report base‐line data on the current levels of education, skills, and knowledge of Indonesian academic librarians, and provides an insight into their continuing…

Competency‐based service reviews and workforce planning at Deakin University library

This paper seeks to describe an approach to staff development and workforce planning which is implemented as part of a process of internal reviews of service areas within an…

Out west and down under: New geographies for staff development

This paper aims to provide case studies of staff development programs at two university libraries: those of Montana State University in the USA and Victoria University Library in…

The right person, in the right job, with the right skills, at the right time: A workforce‐planning model that goes beyond metrics

The paper aims to describe a workforce‐planning model developed in‐house in an Australian university library that is based on rigorous environmental scanning of an institution…

Do library staff have what it takes to be a librarian of the future?

The purpose of this paper is to outline strategies and approaches in the workforce plan to address skill shortages in the university of Melbourne library to ensure that staff have…

Nurturing new talent: running a corporate internship program

The purpose of this paper is to describe the internship programme developed in the Knowledge Centre of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Library staff development at the University of Auckland Library – Te Tumu Herenga: Endeavouring to “get what it takes” in an academic library

This paper aims to describe the approach taken by a staff development committee at a large academic library in New Zealand to reinvigorate professional and personal development…

Investing in your people works – can 40,000 organisations be wrong?

The purpose of this paper is to present an outline of research, and provide a range of ideas and strategies that an organisation can adopt to improve its performance, in both…

Developing leadership to transform our library: The library leadership development program (LLDP) at the University of Saskatchewan

The paper aims to provide an overview of the background and context of the decision by a Canadian research library to invest in developing and implementing its own in‐house…

Campus priorities and information literacy in Hong Kong higher education: A case study

The purpose of this paper is to describe the strategic efforts of the Hong Kong Baptist University Library to build institutional support for information literacy in an…

How library practitioners view knowledge management in libraries: A qualitative study

The main purpose of this paper is to explore library practitioners' views of knowledge management (KM) and its incorporation into library practice.

The Accidental Librarian

Digital Images for the Information Professional

Better by Design: An Introduction to Planning and Designing a New Library Building

The Impact of Digital Technology on Contemporary and Historic Newspapers, Proceedings of the International Newspaper Conference, Singapore, April 1‐3, 2008, and Papers from the World Library and Information Congress, Québec, Canada, August

The Alexander Wilson Award