The Relationship Between Authentic Leadership,Trust, and Engagement in Library Personnel

Using validated and reliable psychometric instruments, 87 non-manager library employees were surveyed to determine the nature of the relationships between non-manager perceptions of authenticity and trust in two levels of leadership with self-rated engagement. The results provide insights about how non-managers perceive authenticity and trust in both direct managers and senior supervisors, and how those perceptions are related to self-ascribed employee engagement. While perceptions of trust and authenticity accounted for some of the variance found, undetermined variables may explain more of the variance in employee engagement. Recommendations for developing authentic leaders and engaging employees in a library setting are offered.     

Developing Social Media to Engage and Connect at the University of Liverpool Library

ABSTRACT

This case study presents the Liverpool experience of using social media as an academic library to enhance audience engagement and create a community of users. It looks at the development of social media in the library, focusing on the concerted effort to grow followers and develop a meaningful use of these tools. It considers the value of taking a team approach, ensuring a diversity and breadth of output. Using social media effectively enables libraries to connect with users in a space they already occupy and bring added value to existing activities. A strong, well maintained social media presence enhances a library's national and international profile and ensures good on campus relationships with main stakeholders. This case study demonstrates the relevance of social media as a communication channel and the importance of selecting the correct platform depending on audience or aims. A literature review and recommendations based on experience are included.     

入世后医院图书馆信息服务的创新与发展

入世后，医院图书馆既面临巨大的发展机遇又面临严峻的挑战，图书馆要更新观念，实行机构重组，形成新的工作模式，信息服务要有创新和发展，拓宽服务范围，增强图书馆的吸引力，注重提高人员素质，提出相应对策。     

高校图书馆工作人员积极性的驱动

进入21世纪,如何深化高校图书馆的改革工作是摆在高校图书馆领导面前的重要任务.结合高校图书馆职工政治思想工作的实际,扼要地介绍了当今调动高校图书馆工作人员积极性和创造性的七个方面的驱动作用.     

Across the Table: Competing Perspectives for Managing Technology in a Library Setting

ABSTRACT

In a lively point/counterpoint format, the authors discuss issues of library technology from two perspectives: that of a library administrator and that of an Emerging Technologies Librarian. Rather than providing an artificial sense of closure, this article is designed to highlight differing positions on these issues, inviting libraries to use these conflicting viewpoints as tools to aid them in finding the solutions that best fit their unique situation.     

图书馆学新老五定律与图书馆信息服务创新

论文介绍了图书馆学五定律的学术思想,提出图书馆学新老五定律对现代图书馆信息服务创新具有重要的指导意义。     

可持续发展:21世纪图书馆学研究与创新的新思路

分析“可持续发展”概念的溯源及其基本涵义,阐明国外图书馆可持续发展理论研究的现状,论述理论创新是适应新世纪图书馆可持续发展的战略抉择。     

Collaborative,Creative, Participative: Trends in Public Library Innovation

Innovation in public libraries has been concentrated in the areas of participation, making & creating, learning, new outreach and partnerships. These trends represent the emerging areas of strategic focus for public libraries and are strongly influencing the development of library services towards a model that is collaborative, creative and participative, and that places the library at the centre of its user’s daily lives. This article provides an overview of these trends, with examples of how they are manifesting in library services, programming and strategy.     

Learning to Lead: Challenges and Resources for The New Public Library Director

Library directors are part of the infrastructure of information management, but how well do they manage their institutional knowledge for succession planning? Our study looked at strategies to ease managerial transitions between libraries, focusing on knowledge management, communities of practice, and mentorship. Our survey found that succession planning was dictated by local practice and size of library. The results of this paper inform knowledge of succession planning and reveal existing gaps between informal transfer of knowledge and structured knowledge management (KM), as well as librarians' resourcefulness. Library directors use KM strategies, mentoring, and involvement with communities of practice to foster innovation.     

新时期高校图书馆创新服务研究

随着网络和信息技术的发展和普及,高校图书馆如何进行服务创新以适应新形势和发展的要求,已成为至关重要的问题.高校图书馆的服务创新,应体现在服务观念、功能、内容、技术、管理、组织结构等方面.     

图书馆知识管理:目标、创新模式及实现条件

分析图书馆知识管理的涵义,探讨基于知识管理的图书馆服务的创新模式,提出图书馆知识管理的关键应抓住“以人为本”,实现隐性知识显性化的观点,并从人力资源管理、技术支持和环境保障等方面对图书馆实施知识管理的条件进行较深入的阐述。     

Strategic Alignment at the University of Manchester Library: Ambitions,Transitions, and New Values

The University of Manchester Library (UML) is embarking on an ambitious new strategy that aims to align the library more closely to the work of the University—to contribute to the University's strategic success. This article describes elements of the strategy development and content, focusing on methods used; how the service has worked collaboratively both internally and externally, and how senior managers have supported resource, skill, and knowledge challenges. The role of the middle manager is explored in detail in terms of its importance to successful strategy implementation, and parallels are drawn between UML's senior and operational requirements.     

新时期科研单位图书馆信息服务工作的创新

本文分析了科研单位图书馆信息服务工作的现状与优势,并结合科研人员对信息服务的要求,提出了科研单位信息服务创新的策略;结合实际工作,从开拓网络资源、收集地方文献开发馆藏、发挥单位自身人才优势及建立培训激励机制方面,总结了在图书馆信息服务工作中的创新经验。     

“互联网+”视角下图书馆创新的逻辑与行动——以图书馆受赠创新为例

[目的/意义]较低的资源配置效率使得图书馆面临边缘化的困境,从"互联网+"的视角探究背后的形成逻辑有助于找到破解困境的创新路径。[方法/过程]在对"互联网+"提出背景、基本内涵和典型特征系统梳理的基础上,分别从传统视角和"互联网+"视角对图书馆发展困境的形成机理进行分析,提出基于"互联网+"的图书馆创新路径,最后以图书馆受赠为例进行实证。[结果/结论]基于"互联网+"的理念,尊重人性,强化连接,重构模式,融合创新,打造开放的行业生态是图书馆破解当前发展困境的正确选择。     

Living Library组织模式与核心理念对图书馆创新的启示

Living Library是在图书馆的组织下,由特定用户担任Living Book并与其他用户交流从而分享知识和智慧的服务理念与服务方式。Living Library的核心理念是让用户服务用户。Living Library活动的实现需要经历宣传Living Library、招募和组织Living Book、提供Living Book借阅、评估Living Library 4个步骤。LivingLibrary经过10多年的发展,取得了良好的成效,为图书馆服务理念创新带来了启示。     

Innovation,Creativity, and Meaning: Leading in the Information Age

Today's fast paced global environment requires information professionals to be leaders keeping pace with user needs. Two academic research libraries share their work seeking to ensure and leverage the creativity in their organizations focusing on the most meaningful innovative opportunities. The premise is that usefulness and appropriateness is achieved through strategic alignment, thereby opening the door of opportunity for innovative products and services. The ability to seize the opportunity each group seeks to meet is due to the recognition by the organization of that alignment. And so, organizational perception, awareness, and value all affect the successful implementation of creativity. The products and services presented in this article, Harvard's Baker Library Historical Collections Online and Purdue University's career wiki, stem from organizational alignment, and the work of the leadership teams to influence perception, create awareness, and demonstrate value.     

试论图书馆业务工作的技术创新及其动力

论文在分析图书馆业务工作技术创新含义、内容和动力的基础上，分析了图书馆业务工作技术创新动力的各个方面，以及创新动力不足的原因。     

中国图书馆学:从模仿走向创新--从中国图书馆学史分期说起

本文试分析国内目前关于图书馆学史分期的几种观点的不妥之处,并从理论创新角度认为我国图书馆学的历史就是模仿西方图书馆学的历史,由此得出中国图书馆学还处于萌芽状态的结论。     

Our Path to Engagement,Learning, and Stewardship: The Oak Park Public Library,the American Library Association,and the Harwood Institute

How do we engage with our community in a more meaningful way? How do we make the user experience the center of all we do? What impact are we having and how do we measure it? In an effort to better answer these questions and make a tighter connection between library objectives and the broader needs of the community, the Oak Park Public Library embarked on a journey to “turn outward.” Following the Harwood model for community engagement, Oak Park has made strides in unifying its internal operations and strengthening strategic partnerships. Its intention is wider and deeper community impact.