Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries
A User Experience Approach
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Product details:
- Publisher American Library Association
- Date of Publication 30 November 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780838948354
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages136 pages
- Size 228x152x7 mm
- Weight 195 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 illustration 125
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Short description:
With passion, patience, and fortitude, libraries can stride confidently into the future. In this book, noted speakers and consultants Bignoli and Stara speak directly to library directors, managers, administrators, and technology staff, offering concrete guidance on setting or resetting strategic priorities.
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"Library leaders can ensure their institutions stay ahead of rapid change and increasing service expectations with the strategies, tools, and holistic approach presented in this book.
In the face of rapid change and an ever-widening constellation of challenges, it's crucial for library leaders to pull back to the question of ""why?"" Plotting a sustainable way forward depends upon recommitting ourselves to our underlying values, such as customer service and community-building, while fostering the improvements that change makes possible. With passion, patience, and fortitude, libraries can stride confidently into the future. In this book, noted speakers and consultants Bignoli and Stara speak directly to library directors, managers, administrators, and technology staff, offering concrete guidance on setting or resetting strategic priorities. Taking an interconnected and specific approach to planning for and strengthening the library environment as a whole, their book
- discusses why libraries should embrace change as a fundamental part of library life;
- explores how to harness rapid change to provide more responsive, user-centered library service;
- addresses the ways in which libraries straddle the physical and the digital, in areas such as service provision and collections, illuminating how they overlap and can be improved using similar philosophies;
- presents both a comprehensive overview of library technologies as well as related team and change management advice, all grounded in user experience principles;
- shows how the concepts of sustainability and flexibility apply to physical space planning and design, from furniture selection and arrangement to infrastructure; and
- provides sound guidance on project management, problem solving, preparing for future challenges, personal reflection and self-care, and other leadership topics.
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why This Book?
Part I: Passion
- Chapter 1 Customer Service Expectations in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 2 Users at the Center of Everything
Part II: Patience
- Chapter 3 Leading the Way in the Face of Change
- Chapter 4 Library Technology
- Chapter 5 Physical Spaces
Part III: Fortitude
- Chapter 6 Project Management and Problem Solving
- Chapter 7 Horizon Scanning for Threats
Epilogue: It's Never Perfect and It's Never Done
- Index
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