Achieving transformational change in academic libraries /

Academic libraries undergo episodes of strategic change. Transformational change may be seen as fundamentally different from other kinds of change. A part of this process is often deep level cultural change. At the individual level this may be traumatic, but at the strategic level, such change can p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mossop, Stephen (Author)
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2013.
Series:	Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:	Academic libraries. Organizational change. Organizational Innovation Bibliothèques universitaires. Changement organisationnel. academic libraries (institutions) FICTION > General. Academic libraries Organizational change Electronic books. Fictional Work Fiction Fiction. Romans.
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Table of Contents:

Transformational change : planning, processes and people. Who what is 'transformational change'?
Organisational resistance to change : 'I wouldn't start from here!'
Staff resistance to change : 'that's now how we do things here ... '
It's all about the people
When does it all end?
Transformational change : case studies. Transforming library services : the University of Exeter experience / Stephen Mossop
Leadership to transform our library : a case study of the University Library, University of Saskatchewan, Canada / Vicki Williamson
Transforming library services : the University of Central Lancashire experience / Jeremy Andrew.