Changing the Workplace Culture at Flinders University Library: From Pragmatism to Professional Reflection

Hall, Liz

doi:10.1080/00048623.2014.985773

Cited by 8 publications

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“…Libraries where the administration provides professional development funding have higher employee morale than those without (Kennedy and Garewal, 2020). In libraries where administration supports employee growth and interest, such as by supporting a Research Working Group or other community of practice, positive perception of employee culture and relationships within the library increases (Hall, 2015). Another factor that increases morale among library workers is the receipt of constructive feedback from their supervisors.…”

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Academic Library as Workplace

Albro,

McElfresh

2024

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This study seeks to explore the academic library as a workplace and understand indicators of successful performance and areas that indicate a need for improvement. A survey containing the Knowledge Intensive Work Environment Survey Target (KIWEST) was sent to academic library listservs and received 351 complete responses eligible for analysis. Respondents were library workers employed in an academic library in the United States at the time of taking the survey. Academic libraries performed best in the areas of job autonomy, task completion clarity, competency demands, and meaning of work. Academic libraries indicated less positively in the areas of perceived investment in employee development, engagement (dedication), social support from supervisors, and role conflicts. Findings were consistent with previous studies about the individual factors in the library workplace, and this study demonstrates consistency with academic library strengths and areas of growth in the rapidly changing post-COVID workplace environment.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Library as Workplace

Albro,

McElfresh

2024

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“…2014;Ślusarczyk 2016;Bemme 2020] i zrozumienia potrzeb wynikających ze zmieniającego się otoczenia społecznego [Hjort, Lindkvist 2015]. Inne badania wskazują na konieczność wdrażania innowacji i wykorzystania metod biznesowych zarządzania projektami w pracy bibliotek, na przykład Sara Holder [2018] czy Liz Walkley Hall [2015]. Z drugiej zaś strony pojawiają się głosy o projektyzacji, degradowaniu artystów do roli menedżerów, zatracaniu w związku z tym roli kultury jako zjawiska kształtującego odbiorcę, szczególnie w środowisku lokalnym [Kowalik i in.…”

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Wdrożenie elementów Scruma w instytucji kultury

Krawczyńska

2021

Zarządzanie W Kulturze

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Implementation of Scrum Elements in a Cultural Institution Since March 2020, managers of cultural institutions have had to dynamically adapt their methodologies for teamwork, project management, and ongoing institutional tasks to the COVID-19 restrictions and guidelines handed down by public authorities. Following the initial downtime in the spring season and the reopening in June 2020, the Pod Atlantami Municipal Library in Wałbrzych took vigorous measures to adapt its cultural project management to the new conditions, drawing on the experience of the broadly understood business sector. These measures included the implementation of certain elements of Scrum as an agile framework for project management. The goal of the paper is to showcase the pilot implementation of Scrum elements in project management in the selected cultural institution. The analysis relied on structured questionnaires and open questions, visualisation meetings, and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis showed the applicability of backlog management, iterative planning, and iterative task execution to projects pursued by cultural institutions, along with potential for winning the employees’ approval. However, a properly executed implementation is necessary, in which regard this paper offers a set of recommendations arising from the analysis.

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“…Studies realized among scholars in Spain revealed that representatives of sciences used literature databases most often but the authors were not able to fi nd confi rmation for the assumed correlation between the frequency in the use of these sources and the later effect of publications in browsed journals (Rodríguez-Bravo & Alvite-Díez, 2013). They are also studies carried out among academic library users different from countries (Ahmad & Brogan, 2016;Dadzie & van der Walt, 2015;Grigas et al, 2017;Nazari, Khosravi, & Babalhavaeji, 2013;Shimizu Wilson, D'Ambra, & Drummond, 2014) which showed the problems with academics' awareness of the existence of such digital tools as online databases and repositories. (Knight, 2013), on the basis of research carried out at the Northern Caribbean University observed a general principle -increasing of the number of digital sources at the library caused a rise in the utilization of all library's resources, digital as well as printed.…”

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“…This proclamation seems to be especially accurate in relation to academic libraries and research work where it is particularly important to use information from valuable and reliable sources. It is also true, however, that academics rely more and more often on sources which are generally available on the Internet (Grigas, Juzeniene, & Velickaite, 2017;Matysek & Pulikowski, 2018). In this situation, when traditional services such as providing access to collections and literature searches may not be suffi cient to maintain the key role of the library, there is a question of how else can it support the work of scientists?…”

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The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research

Mierzecka

2019

studia_medioznawcze

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The wide expansion of digital technologies has influenced research in all fields of science as well as educational activities. Scientific objective: The purpose of this article is to examine critical areas of academic library activity, in a significant or requiring far-reaching changes in all aspects, in the context of needs of the scientific community. Research methods: It was decided that the method that will allow to outline the situation in this area will be qualitative content analysis texts from leading journals. For this purpose, the main databases of Web of Science articles have been searched: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), using the instruction TS = (“academic library” OR “academic libraries” OR “university library” OR “university libraries”) AND TS = (scholars or scientists or faculty or researchers or academics). The query limited to the last five years yielded gave as results 170 articles, of which 51 were deemed relevant to the issues discussed. Results and conclusions: In the light of qualitative content analysis of those texts, it is possible to distinguish following areas as important: general approach of scholars and librarians to cooperation, practices of research support, access to information resources adapted to scholars’ needs, data curation support, publication strategies support. On this basis, conclusions have been drawn about the role and type of support that academic libraries may provide in the process of scholarly communication. Cognitive value: This study has contributed to the research into the evaluation of academic library’s support services in the process of scholarly communication.

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Changing the Workplace Culture at Flinders University Library: From Pragmatism to Professional Reflection

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Academic Library as Workplace

Academic Library as Workplace

Wdrożenie elementów Scruma w instytucji kultury

The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research

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