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Genre/Form: | Case studies |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sara Holder; Amber Lannon |
ISBN: | 9780838987919 0838987915 |
OCLC Number: | 911180182 |
Description: | x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Merging, creating, transforming : the new service model program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / JoAnn Jacoby and Susan E. Searing -- Shifting borders : changes in the scholarly landscape and integration of area studies libraries to accomplish new service goals in an academic library / Steve Witt, Joe Lenkart, and Lynne M. Rudasill -- Merging the social and health sciences step by step / Nancy P. O'Brien, Mary Beth Allen, Peg Burnette, Cindy Ingold, Kelly A. McCusker, and Beth Sheehan -- Regaining equilibrium on a tilting planet within the higher education universe : a scholarly personal narrative / Rebecca Rose -- The very model of a modern major library / Nancy Roderer, Blair Anton, Will Bryant, Robert Gresehover, Stella Seal, Claire Twose, and Sue Woodson -- Change in the 21st-century library : fate or opportunity? / Tomalee Doan, Linda Rose, and Mary McNeil -- Unanticipated opportunities from closed libraries : pivoting for the future / James T. Crocamo, Jeffrey Lancaster, and Ellie Ransom -- A tale of three libraries : lessons learned from three branch mergers at McGill University / Jill T. Boruff, Katherine Hanz, Sara Holder, Maya Kucij, Jessica Lange, and Amber Butler Lannon -- One hundred years of history : closing and consolidating the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library / Amy Butros -- Using data to make collections decisions : a case study from University of California, Berkeley / Susan Edwards and Hilary Schiraldi -- Everything must move : coordinating the implementation of a large collection merger / Giovanna Badia -- When libraries combine : creating a Georgia Regents University Libraries website / Virginia Feher and Kim Mears -- Hidden from view : the role of organizational culture in collegiate restructuring / Lynn N. Baird -- Branch mergers at the University of British Columbia Library : a case study in communication / Simon Neame. |
Responsibility: | edited by Sara Holder and Amber Butler Lannon. |
Abstract:
Explores aspects of library consolidation through commentary, research, and case studies written by librarians. Individual chapters address either the entire process of a consolidation or closure, multiple aspects of one or more experiences, or one aspect that is particularly important such as communicating with faculty or using data to make decisions about collections.
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