Synopses & Reviews
Today's rapidly evolving information-based society demands that public libraries implement planned, proactive, and innovative change to meet patron needs. Rapid, widespread, and substantive change and innovation in public librarianship depends on the ability of public librarians to share in the exchange of new ideas, regardless of the size of their communities. This book explores how managerial innovations are generated and disseminated among public librarians.
To examine how new ideas are created and spread among public librarians, the volume focuses on the case of the dissemination of a particular innovation, a set of techniques developed and promoted by a national professional association, which allows public librarians to engage in user-oriented planning, community-specific role setting, and self-evaluation of library performance. This case study is placed within a larger context of classical models of the diffusion process and the literature on organizational change and innovation. Drawing on her findings, the author offers suggestions to facilitate public library change.
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This book is worthwhile to library students and public libraries for its PLA history.Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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This book is recommended for public library administrators, trustee leaders, and libraries where 'planning meets resistance.'RQ
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The primary purpose of this work is to use the planning process as an example to trace the development and diffusion of an innovation and to draw from this to develop a model for future dissemination of change...a substantial contribution to the profession.Library and Information Science Research
Synopsis
Today's rapidly evolving information-based society demands that public libraries implement planned, proactive, and innovative change. In order for public libraries to meet patron needs, librarians must maintain a current knowledge of managerial information and innovation, so as to change their libraries effectively. This book explores how managerial innovations are generated and disseminated among public librarians.
Synopsis
Argues that for libraries to respond effectively to a changing society, managerial information and innovation must be spread more effectively among librarians.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index.
About the Author
VERNA L. PUNGITORE is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University.