Tag Archives for Library Management
Part Three: Client Engagement in Special Libraries—What are the skills and competencies for engagement?
Let’s ask ourselves what are the major competencies required for success? What should we invest our personal development focus on? Read More
Championing the Library’s Role in Sustainability
This week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Madeleine Charney, a Sustainability Studies Librarian at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Through connecting sustainability communities across campus and supporting them with key library resources and services, Madeleine demonstrates how libraries … Continue reading
The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting
It is not only a tribute to Hazen’s impact on the academic library community, but also a primer on where academic library collections could be headed in the future. Read More
Volume 3: How Design Can Help Us Rethink Library Spaces
The Building a Reading Culture (BRC) Project Roundtable on School Libraries and Design. Read More
Innovative Delivers Market-Leading Digital Asset Management with Responsive Web Experience in Vital Release 8.0
Innovative Interfaces has launched Vital Release 8.0 with a new fully responsive user interface that provides instant access to important repositories from any device. Vital, Innovative’s digital asset management solution, allows libraries and other institutions to create a beautiful and … Continue reading
Advocacy and Assessment: Communicating and Maximizing Library Value
Earlier this year, Ithaka S+R published results from the US Library Survey 2016, which examines strategy and leadership issues from the perspective of academic library deans and directors. One of the key findings from the study was that library directors … Continue reading
Imagining the Future of Academic Libraries
This special issue explores the possibilities of what academic libraries might become or cease to be in a speculative future. Experts from different sectors of the academic library ecosystem were asked to share their visions of the future, with the … Continue reading
Performance Management in Academic Libraries: A Balanced Scorecard Approach for Digital Services
This article explores the possibility of using the “Balanced Scorecard” approach (originally designed for commercial organisations) to measure the performance of Digital Services in Academic Libraries. Read More