The management of hybrid libraries
Lyndon Pugh
Library and Information Research Volume 29, Number 92, Summer 2005, pp13-31
The author
Lyndon Pugh is currently teaching in the Department of Information Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth Business School. He is the Managing editor of the Multimedia Information & Technology journal, previously managing editor of Ariadne. Has written and researched widely on information services management.
Abstract
This research investigates managerial attitudes to some key ideas concerning the organisational design of hybrid libraries. It establishes the general theoretical base for the management of organisations operating in similar circumstances, and considers the treatment of hybrid libraries in the literature of librarianship.A questionnaire administered to UK library directors obtained responses to the key areas of organisational structures, communication, the management of electronic/digital information, skills, learning and development, teams, leadership and the degree of change in the roles of senior and middle management.
This research was funded by the LIRG/Elsevier Research Award.
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