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The LITA leadership guide : the librarian as entrepreneur, leader, and technologist

Carl Antonucci (Editor), Sharon Clapp (Editor)
The LITA Leadership Guide will help librarians at every level of the career ladder and will supplement leadership and skill-based training workshops. Library leadership teams interested in the development of their staff as a means of improving their organizational performance will find it to provide context for growth, training, and collaboration.
Print Book, English, 2017
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2017
xiv, 137 s.
9781442279018, 9781442279025, 144227901X, 1442279028
1001554883
Part I. Leadership
What it means to be a leader in academic libraries in the 21st century / Bradford Lee Eden
From a transactional to relational model : redefining public services via a roving pilot program at the Georgia Tech Library / Emy Nelson Decker, Marlee Givens and Bruce Henson
Leading changes in library as an architect of technology infrastructure / Hong Ma
Part 2. Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurial spirit lives in librarians / Mary G. Scanlon & Michael A. Crumpton
The end of the world as we've known it : disruptive innovation in an academic library / Rebecca Bichel and C. Heather Scalf
Creating spaces for innovation in the workplace / Michael Rodriguez
Part 3. Technology
The promise and perils of open-source / Junior Tidal
Early adoption, early abandonment : parallel problems in promoting new technology / Caitlin A. Bagley
A model to align technology with strategy and structure in academic libraries / Harish Maringanti