Contents

pp vii-viii

Foreword

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xviii

Preface

pp xix-xx

Introduction

pp xxi-xxxiv

Section 1 - Views From the Corridors of Power: The Political and Global Perspective

pp 1-2

1 - Painting Books on the Walls: Why Libraries Have Lost Their Way and How They Can Rediscover Their Real Purpose in a Fragmented World

pp 3-24

2 - ‘The Way we Do Things Around Here’: an Analytical Framework For Managing Cultural Change in Public Libraries

pp 25-46

3 - Leading Liberation in the Library

pp 47-62

Section 2 - The Re-Birth of Libraries – New Business Models and Re-Generation of Services

pp 63-64

4 - Do Library Partnerships Work and How Can they Help Build a Strong Future for the Library?

pp 65-80

5 - The 21st-Century People’s Library

pp 81-100

6 - Repositioning the Academic Library to Drive Innovation and Agility

pp 101-122

Section 3 - Who Really Matters? User Communities and Alignment

pp 123-124

7 - Students Lead the Future: Academic Library Space and Place

pp 125-148

8 - Leading Change in Medical Libraries in Sweden

pp 149-160

9 - Corporate Library as the Organisation’s Mothership

pp 161-176

Section 4 - The Future Library Professional – Horizons and Challenges

pp 177-178

10 - Databrarian ed? Preparing Information Specialists for Participation in an Open Datafied Society

pp 179-210

11 - Digital opportunities: what Digital Skills do Library Staff Need in a Changing World? and do they Have Them?

pp 211-226

12 - Top Down and Bottom up – the Librarian as a Senior Leader and Preparing for Senior Leadership by ‘Managing up’

pp 227-238

Index

pp 239-246