Library Management: Volume 33 Issue 4/5

Changing roles of middle managers in academic libraries

Amy Chang, Kawanna Bright

The purpose of this paper is to: address how the library middle management role has changed; assist middle managers in identifying new opportunities and broadening their horizon…

A case for succession planning: How academic libraries are responding to the need to prepare future leaders

Quinn Galbraith, Sara D. Smith, Ben Walker

The purpose of this paper is to argue the importance of succession planning within academic libraries backed up by original research documenting current succession planning…

Evidences of outsourcing in science and technology libraries of Delhi

Dinesh K. Gupta, Veerbala Sharma

The paper aims to study the status and future trend of outsourcing in science and technology libraries in Delhi.

A model for a library‐management toolbox: Data warehousing as a tool for filtering and analyzing statistical information from multiple sources

Markku Laitinen, Jarmo Saarti

Quality management, and its associated evidence‐based ideology, have influenced library management from at least the beginning of the 1990s. Both concepts emphasize that decisions…

Neural network design and evaluation for classifying library indicators using personal opinion of expert

Sozon Papavlasopoulos, Marios Poulos

Over the past decades scientific advances have inspired major technological innovations in academic libraries. Academic libraries have transformed into information centers of new…

New challenges for the quality of librarian services delivery in Portugal

Maria Margarida Melo de Carvalho, Caroline Elizabeth Dominguez

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the user's assessment of the level of quality of the library services of the Portuguese University of Trás‐os‐Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD…

Increasing awareness and use of the library's resources and facilities through relationship marketing strategies

Lourdes T. David, Karryl Kim A. Sagun

To increase the use of its resources and services, the Rizal Library of the Ateneo de Manila University embarked on a relationship marketing program targeted at three segments of…

Library performance management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Applying DEA to a sample of university libraries in 2006‐2007

Frederico A. de Carvalho, Marcelino José Jorge, Marina Filgueiras Jorge, Mariza Russo, Nysia Oliveira de Sá

This paper intends to illustrate an application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess library performance from an efficiency standpoint.

Strategic analysis process at academic libraries in Oman

Khalfan Al Hijji

The purpose of this paper is to investigate methods that are used for analyzing strategically various aspects of academic libraries in Oman.

Read To Succeed: Strategies to engage children and young people in reading for pleasure

Amy Barker

The Special Collections Handbook

Donald Kerr

Managing Records in Global Financial Markets: Ensuring Compliance and Mitigating Risk

Shivanthi Weerasinghe

Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age

Matt Moore

Book Repair: a How‐to‐do‐it Manual

Alison Wiercinski

Changing Roles and Contexts for Health Library and Information Professionals

Ann Ritchie

Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval

Bhuva Narayan