Library Management: Volume 37 Issue 4/5

Toward a rational and sustainable division of labor for the preservation of knowledge

Bernard F Reilly

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a rational and sustainable division of labor between national libraries and the information industry for the preservation of knowledge.

Hopes and sighs: the Swiss Cooperative Storage Facility

Ulrich Niederer

The purpose of this paper is to present the Swiss Cooperative Storage Facility, a high bay, high density, automated, and oxygen reduced off-site storage facility which serves five…

Comparing the knowledge management practices in selected European higher education libraries

Núria Balagué, Petra Düren, Jarmo Saarti

Knowledge Management (KM) in libraries refers to the systematic management and control of knowledge as an important resource when producing high-quality library and information…

Library strategic environment in the public cultural service system in China: A case study of Yunnan Province

Ping Ke, Xin Chen, Yingxi Liu, Yimin Zhao

China is currently constructing the public cultural service system on a national scale. Library strategic environment problems, such as the status of library in the public…

Stating the problem: the grammar of repositories

Steve O'Connor

Libraries face a “selling” job on the relationship between print and digital as the mode of delivery for content. Too often it is limply said that “everything is on the web” when…

Knowledge management framework to the university libraries

Roberta Moraes de Bem, Christianne Coelho de Souza Reinisch Coelho, Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini

The purpose of this paper is to propose a knowledge management framework for university libraries (named GC@BU). The framework consists of three modules: knowledge management…

The CTLes as the centerpiece of a national action in adding greater value to collections and optimising their dissemination

Jean-Louis Baraggioli

– The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss challenges for repository libraries.

Cultivating leadership in Asian libraries: a longitudinal impact study

Tina T Yang, Peter E Sidorko, Esther M.W. Woo

– The purpose of this paper is to describe a study aimed at assessing the impact of the only recurring Asian library leadership institute on its participants.

Extended and experimenting: library learning commons service strategy and sustainability

Jennifer Gunter King

– The purpose of this paper is to share a compelling example of a library’s willingness to develop and design itself as an open-ended process.

Collection development or data-driven content curation? An exploratory project in Manchester

Rachel Joy Kirkwood

Collection development in a post-subject librarian age needs to be done differently; utilising data, metadata, analytical tools and automation more fully may offer new…