Lessons from restructuring the library

Shaughnessy, Thomas W.

doi:10.1016/s0099-1333(96)90114-7

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“…Team-based work groups Increasingly, more activities and processes are better achieved through team-based work groups. Many libraries have begun to move into team-based organizational structures (Bender, 1997;Shaughnessy, 1996). Teams will coalesce to address specific problems and will disappear once the project has been completed or the problem solved.…”

Section: Outmoded Traditional Hierarchical Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Restructuring library organizations for the twenty‐first century: the future of user‐oriented services in Korean academic libraries

Shin

Kim

2002

Aslib Proceedings

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This article examines why Korean academic libraries embarked on restructuring their organization and identifies possible solutions to some problems that these libraries face. The conclusion is drawn from the results of a case study on Sejong University Library that Korean academic librarians should become user-centered professionals. After restructuring, the user service librarian's job content has changed to concentrate on servicing users on specific subjects. The subject librarian will take care of reference services, SDI, DB instruction and book selection on the same subject.

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Section: Outmoded Traditional Hierarchical Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Restructuring library organizations for the twenty‐first century: the future of user‐oriented services in Korean academic libraries

Shin

Kim

2002

Aslib Proceedings

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“…Of course, the idea of BPR has been widely disseminated and it would be strange if librarians did not already know of it: the idea of applying BPR has been advanced by others (e.g. Shaughnessy [5]; Anderson [6]) and there are also reports of work in progress [7,8].…”

Section: Business Process Redesignmentioning

confidence: 99%

Redesigning the university library in the digital age

Wilson

1998

Journal of Documentation

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Business process re-engineering (or redesign) has achieved mixed results in business and industry but it offers an approach to thinking about the future of academic libraries in the digital age that is worth considering. This paper outlines the forces that are currently affecting academic libraries in the UK and proposes a strategy whereby the transformation from the handling of artefacts to the handling of electronic sources may be effected with maximum benefit to the information user.

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“…Rather, the purpose was much the same as that given by Thomas W. Shaughnessy in his account of a restructuring effort at Minnesota, when he said: "The most important reason for restructuring, however, is also the most abstract, namely, that libraries must be organized to deal with the extraordinary changes that are occurring in their environment." 13 A reengineering structure was developed at the UIC library, consisting of a steering commi�ee and two teams. The teams were composed primarily of support staff from the technical services departments of UIC's main library and its health sciences library.…”

Section: The Uic Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Library Department Head in the Context of Matrix Management and Reengineering

Bloss

Lanier

1997

CRL

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Academic libraries are experiencing significant organizational changes that are having an impact on the library department head. The library department head’s job has undergone a dramatic shift from what was, until relatively recently, the typical middle manager’s line command position in the bureaucratic hierarchy. Literature analyzing these changes has been reviewed and is discussed in the context of a specific effort to reengineer library technical service operations.

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Lessons from restructuring the library

Cited by 18 publications

References 2 publications

Restructuring library organizations for the twenty‐first century: the future of user‐oriented services in Korean academic libraries

Restructuring library organizations for the twenty‐first century: the future of user‐oriented services in Korean academic libraries

Redesigning the university library in the digital age

The Library Department Head in the Context of Matrix Management and Reengineering

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