Leadership and management principles in libraries in developing countries
By: Wei Wei, Sue O'Neill Johnson, Sylvia E.A. Piggott, editors.
Contributors: Wei, Wei, 1952-; Johnson, Sue O'Neill.; Piggott, Sylvia E. A.
Publisher: Haworth Information Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Binghamton, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Libraries -- Developing countries.; Library administration -- Developing countries.; Special libraries -- Developing countries.; Information services -- Developing countries.
Other titles: Science & technology libraries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers selected from those submitted to the Special Libraries Association, Leadership and Management Division's 2003 International Paper Competition.
"Co-published simultaneously as Science & technology libraries, volume 23, numbers 2/3."
Table of contents: title: Transforming a traditional library into hybrid library : use of leadership and managerial skills at the Central Library, IIT Delhi / Jagdish Arora; title: The role of leadership and innovative management in building rural knowledge centers to reach the "unreached" / Subbiah Arunachalam; title: The application of leadership and management principles in libraries / Muhammad Yaqub Chaudhary, Muhammad Umar Farooq; title: The application of leadership and management principles and strategies to a library and information service / P.R. Goswami; title: Application of leadership and management principles for libraries : some reflections from India / V.K.J. Jeevan; title: Traditional values still relevant in library usage and readership enhancement : challenges before a librarian / K.A. Raju; title: How can the college libraries of western China conform to digital trends? / Wang Fang; title: Development of a Web site for a commercial bank corporate library in Sri Lanka / Shivanthi Weerasinghe; title: Indonesian libraries in agriculture and tropical biology : crises, reforms, and the ongoing need for international support / Widharto; title: Library services, application of management principles / Pradyna Yogesh, Alan Dalton; title: The application of leadership and management principles and strategies in a bureaucratic environment : the case of Federal Ministry of Industry Headquarters Library, Nigeria / Imo J. Akpan; title: The role of mobile patient library services in providing palliative care to people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda / Kasusse Michael; title: Leveraging natural skills to overcome traditional ways in a third world library / Foli Kuevidjen; title: Library and information services (LIS) strategic planning in a developing country : a case study / Paiki Muswazi; title: The application of leadership and management principles and strategies in an information resource center in Burkina Faso / Josephine Ouedraogo; title: The application of leadership and management principles and strategies to an information service, the British Council Management Information Centre, Mombasa / Mary N. Stevens; title: Research translation in South Africa / Mariam Stuurman; title: Working locally, thinking globally in the beginning of library management and leadership / Toshka Borisova; title: Librarianship in Azerbaijan : what can a leader do? / Muzhgan Nazarova; title: Cautious but decisive : ten years of information services implementation at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala / Grete Pasch.