Strategic priorities and change in academic libraries / by Anne Marie Casey.

"Library managers use strategic priorities as a guide in decision-making and planning in response to external changes such as the recession of 2007-2009. ... This dissertation addresses that issue through a multiple case study, which examined three pubic academic libraries in California and Mic...

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Main Author: Casey, Anne Marie.
Corporate Author: Simmons College (Boston, Mass.). Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: 2011.
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