Library Management: Volume 39 Issue 8/9

Libraries and user culture: literacy and development implications

Peter Mose

The purpose of this paper is to establish stocking and services offered and user culture at the Kenya National Library Services Kisii Branch. The study sought to respond to the…

Collaborative leadership in public library service development

Kerry Wilson

The purpose of this paper is to discuss findings from the formative evaluation of a national public library development initiative in England, with a focus on the practice and…

Implementation of strategic management based on the balanced scorecard in a university library

Oksana Brui

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of implementing strategic management as a process based on balanced scorecard (BSC) in the university library – G. Denysenko…

The current status of innovation in the university libraries of Pakistan

Sania Awais, Kanwal Ameen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the current status of innovations in the university libraries of Pakistan because the desire for reshaping the university libraries is now…

Music librarianship and creativity: The case of International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML)

Charilaos Lavranos

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) aims to promote activities and cooperation between music libraries worldwide. IAML…

Current practices of management of online databases at university libraries in Maharashtra state of India

Priyanka Pradeep Wadekar, Shubhada Prashant Nagarkar

The purpose of this paper is to know-how the university libraries are managing online databases, especially from the Maharashtra state of India. The focus is to study the…

Settling in: how newcomers use a public library

John Shepherd, Larissa Petrillo, Allan Wilson

The purpose of this paper is to describe how recent immigrants and refugees to Canada (“newcomers”) use the facilities of a large, urban public library. As the library previously…

Supporting the next generation of Texas A&M University scholars

Heather K. Moberly, Dong Joon Lee, Michael David Kessler, Esther Elizabeth Carrigan

The speed of information transfer, discovery, and evaluation is accelerating the timeline for young researchers to establish their scholarly identity. A clear scholarly identity…

Creating value for all: joint academic library in the service of five universities

Katri Maria Rintamäki, Christina Flemming, Anne Marketta Lehto, Jonna Toukonen

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse practices of a joint university library as a model of cooperation between universities.

From practice to research at Flinders University Library: sustaining a research culture

Liz Walkley Hall

The purpose of this paper is to describe the mechanisms used by Flinders University Library to sustain a culture of research. Flinders University Library has been supporting its…

Academic libraries in Romania: Cooperation and partnerships as seen through the eyes of library directors

Octavia-Luciana Madge

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the results obtained from a study on cooperation, collaboration and partnerships between academic libraries in Romania.