Library Management: Volume 32 Issue 4/5

Secondary school librarians as heads of department in UK schools

The purpose of this paper is to study the attitudes of UK head teachers and of librarians to the view that secondary school librarians should have the status of a head of…

Should your library have an innovation strategy?

The purpose of this paper is to argue the case for libraries to develop a more holistic and strategic approach to their innovation activities, with a view to enhancing their…

Exemplary public library branch managers: their characteristics and effectiveness

The purpose of this paper is to revisit a study that identifies the characteristics that contribute to perceptions by local politicians, library board members, library leaders and…

Mission impossible? The future of “paperless” library operations

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the current state of the “paperless office” and explore how likely it is that libraries will be administered by librarians in paperless…

Promote staff publications: library performance evaluation at Santa Cruz Public Libraries

The purpose of this paper is to study the implementation of Staff Picks, a new measurement to evaluate the annual performance of professionals at the Santa Cruz Public Libraries…

Learning to share: mandates and open access

Online open access (OA) to research publications comes to scholarship as a vision that makes sense and is congruent with the aims of science and scholarship. It is argued that…

Cities as long tails of the physical world: a challenge for public libraries

The aim of this paper is to study if a link can be established between the role of new public libraries in contemporary society and the application of the long tail paradigm to…

Public library assessment in customer perspective: To which customer group should the library listen?

The purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss the basis for management decisions among options expressed by customer groups on the basis of their perception and assessment…

Branding of UK public libraries

Evidence suggests that misconceptions and negative stereotypes of the image of public libraries still prevail today despite libraries diversifying and offering a range of services…

Using online advertising to increase the impact of a library Facebook page

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of using online advertising on the social networking site Facebook in encouraging university students to connect with…

Building Your Portfolio: The CILIP Guide

Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval

The Public Library

Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts and Technologies and Trends

Digital Information: Order or Anarchy?