Refocusing Academic Libraries through Learning and Discourse av Mary K. (Mary K. Bolin PhD<br>Professor Emeritus University of Nebraska--Lincoln

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<p><i>Organizational Transformation in Academic Libraries: Discourse, Process, Product</i> helps inform discussions in academic libraries on organizational patterns and divisions of labor. The book gives librarians leverage to think outside traditional bureaucratic structures and re-think how libraries serve their patrons. It examines existing structures and proposes new organizational models and lays out a process for planning organizational transformation and implementing a new organization. Seven chapters offer a radical vision of library transformation, proposing a collaborative process for changing academic libraries into organizations fit for the second quarter of the twenty-first century and beyond. </p><p>Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures and globally disruptive events such as the current pandemic. As a result, practical solutions for transforming organizational and workflow structures for the future are desperately need