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How Do You Manage?, Michael Rogers, La Loria Konata, John Small
How Do You Manage?, Michael Rogers, La Loria Konata, John Small
La Loria Konata
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Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou
Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou
University Library Faculty Publications
It has long been noted that libraries need more diversity in the professional ranks. This situation is now critical with baby boomers soon to retire leaving millennials, who are more racially and ethnically diverse, as the next majority population. The profession will need to recruit a more significant number of millennials to the profession if libraries are to resemble the communities they serve. To get an idea of the current status of management diversity in libraries, managers/supervisors of ARL libraries-in states that contain the highest number of minorities in population-were randomly selected for a survey. Participants in ARL's LCDP were …
Brave New World, 2050: The Implications Of Shifting To Electronic Collections, Antje Mays
Brave New World, 2050: The Implications Of Shifting To Electronic Collections, Antje Mays
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
This futuristic article discusses the shift in academic and research libraries to electronic collections in the context of information access, costs, publication models, and preservation of content. Certain factors currently complicate the shift to electronic formats and challenge their widespread acceptance. Future scenarios spanning skill ecosystems, technologies and workflows, and societal implications are explored as logical outgrowths of present circumstances.