Innovation and the Library
The Adoption of New Ideas in Public Libraries
Series: Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science;
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Product details:
- Publisher Praeger
- Date of Publication 24 July 1995
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780313286735
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 234x155 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English 0
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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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Public Libraries, Change, and Innovation
Public Libraries and Organizational Change: An Overview
Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations
Evolutionary Change in Public Libraries: 1920-1965
Life History of a Public Library Innovation
Prelude to Innovation: 1966-1979
Development and Dissemination of the Innovation
PLDP: The Modified Innovation
Toward a Model of Public Library Innovation
Diffusion Among Smaller Libraries: 1980-1990
Patterns of Implementation in Smaller Libraries
Fitting the Public Library Experience to the Models
Facilitating Innovation in Public Libraries
References
Index
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