Bold Minds

Name: Bold Minds
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781783304530
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Library leadership in a time of disruption

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Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of disruption explores the relevance and future of libraries and librarians in the 21st century. It features insights from international leaders who address the challenges posed by economic, technological, and cultural disruptions. The book discusses the strategic role of libraries, cultural change, engagement, diversity, service delivery, collections, and professional training. It offers guidance on leadership development and how library leaders can shape innovative models for the future.
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Ideal for library and information professionals across public and private sectors, policy makers involved with library services, students, educational institutions, and IT professionals engaged in information management.

In Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of diruption, leaders of many kinds of library come together to talk strategically, futuristically and courageously, confronting some of the key issues of our time to confront (some) popular opinions and political positions, and the fundamental question: are librarians and libraries relevant in the 21st Century?

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Are librarians and libraries relevant in the 21st century? This is a fundamental question and one that presents differing opinions across the many diverse information sectors. If there is a continuing need for libraries and for librarians, then how do library leaders obtain strategic support when there appears to be a lack of clarity or understanding about the very purpose of libraries at a time when economically, libraries are under pressure to develop new business models and be more commercially focused?

Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of disruption brings together international leaders who frame many aspects of the current library provision and who carry responsibility for the library models of the future to consider how librarians and libraries can be a driving force in a time of disruptive economic, technological and cultural change.

Each chapter critically presents a short leadership provocation regarding libraries and their purpose, encompassing strategic impact, culture change, engagement, diversity, service delivery, collections, staff skills and professional training and assessing what it means for leaders, their sectors and organisations, and how they have developed their personal leadership signature.

This book will be invaluable to library and information professionals in a range of public and private sector libraries as well as policy makers in services where libraries are a component. It will also be useful for students, educational establishments, and IT professionals with an information management element to their work.

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Law Library Journal praises the book for its diverse international perspectives and its powerful call to action for the future of librarianship. Information Professional highlights it as an invaluable resource for current and aspiring library leaders, as well as educators designing courses for future leadership in the profession.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783304530

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 November 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Leo Appleton
Edited by Margaret Weaver

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 280

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Margaret Weaver is former Director of Library and Learning Resources at Birmingham City University and prior to this was Head of Library Services at Brunel University London, and Director of Library and Student Services at the University of Cumbria. A founding member of the Northern Collaboration group of academic libraries, she has also chaired the North West Academic Libraries (NoWAL) collaboration. Margaret is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy and a chartered member of CILIP. She is also a member of the editorial board of the New Review of Academic Librarianship and a regular contributor to professional literature.

Leo Appleton is a Senior University Teacher in the Information School at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches on library and information services management programmes. He was previously Director of Library Services at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held numerous other leadership and management roles in universities and further education colleges throughout his career. Leo holds a PhD in social informatics from Edinburgh Napier University. He is a chartered fellow of CILIP, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is the editor-in-chief of the New Review of Academic Librarianship.