The ABCs of collaborative change
Subtitle: the manager's guide to library renewal
By: Kerry David Carson, Paula Phillips Carson, Joyce Schouest Phillips.
Contributors: Carson, Paula Phillips, 1967-; Phillips, Joyce Schouest.
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Library administration -- United States.; Organizational change -- United States.
Description: "The renewed library is a patron's first service enterprise. The ABCs of Collaborative Change prescribes the steps for moving from traditional to renewed library, including planning, implementing, and surviving change. This process is one that involves all staff, helping them to buy into the renewal."--BOOK JACKET. "Positive change and transformation can take place only when everyone in the library organization is involved in planning and implementing change initiatives. The best approach is through collaborative change - involvement and participation of all who will be affected. The ABCs of Collaborative Change offers a clear road map to implementing change through positive initiatives that involve all staff."--BOOK JACKET. "The ABCs of collaborative change are: Achieving the renewal, Building the foundation for renewal, and Cementing the renewal."--BOOK JACKET. "Renewall of the library is dependent on how change is implemented, on who is involved, and on staff working together through each step. The ABCs of Collaborative Change tells how to get there from here."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.