Theories in practice : theory functions and diffusion of innovation / Betsy Van der Veer Martens -- Contracting public library management to private vendors : the new public management model / Robert C. Ward, Michael Carpenter -- Career development directions for the public library middle level...

Collection evaluation : a reconsideration / Charles B. Osburn -- Organizational sensemaking as a theoretical framework for the study of library leadership / Tara Lynn Fulton -- Understanding the role of values in library design / Lilia Pavlovsky -- An analysis of library Web sites at colleges...

The Advances in Library Administration and Organization Series seeks to develop a body of research literature that contributes to the base of organizational theory upon which library administrators rely. Its mix of contributions to the literature of library administration and organization is...

This volume addresses an eclectic mix of topics that adapt theoretical concepts relating to the management of libraries to stretch the boundary of practice. The nine contributions include a definition of knowledge management and an outline of a curriculum designed to train knowledge managers...

Volume twenty one of Advances in Library Administration and Organization offers timely articles from scholars and administrators working throughout the world. It adapts theory to practice in a variety of areas of interest to those who manage libraries. These include a demographic study of...

Virtual libraries : real stress : change at the reference desk / Connie van Fleet, Danny P. Wallace -- A recommended methodology for determining the disparity between women's salary levels and those of men in the librarian professorate in an academic library setting / Elizabeth A. Titus -- The...

Choice, responsibility and work : rhetoric in a university library reorganization / Gail E. Bader, William Graves, James M. Nyce -- The attributes of information as an asset / Charles Oppenheim, Joan Stenson, Richard M.S Wilson -- Management education for library and information science / John...

Transforming the rational perspective on skill development : the Dreyfus model in library reference work / Jennifer K. Sweeney -- Faculty status, tenure, and compensating wage differentials among members of the Association of Research Libraries / Deborah Lee -- The professional development of...

Motives for sharing : social networks as information sources / Gunilla Wid(c)Øen-Wulff -- Open access publishing as a discipline-specific way of scientific communication : the case of biomedical research in Finland / Turid Hedlund, Annikki Roos -- Use of social scientific information in...