Difficult decisions : closing and merging academic libraries / edited by Sara Holder and Amber Butler Lannon.

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Other Authors: Holder, Sara, 1967- (Editor), Lannon, Amber (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Association of College and Research Libraries, A division of the American Library Association, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Merging, creating, transforming : the new service model program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / JoAnn Jacoby and Susan E. Searing
  • Shifting borders : changes in the scholarly landscape and integration of area studies libraries to accomplish new service goals in an academic library / Steve Witt, Joe Lenkart, and Lynne M. Rudasill
  • Merging the social and health sciences step by step / Nancy P. O'Brien, Mary Beth Allen, Peg Burnette, Cindy Ingold, Kelly A. McCusker, and Beth Sheehan
  • Regaining equilibrium on a tilting planet within the higher education universe : a scholarly personal narrative / Rebecca Rose
  • The very model of a modern major library / Nancy Roderer, Blair Anton, Will Bryant, Robert Gresehover, Stella Seal, Claire Twose, and Sue Woodson
  • Change in the 21st-century library : fate or opportunity? / Tomalee Doan, Linda Rose, and Mary McNeil
  • Unanticipated opportunities from closed libraries : pivoting for the future / James T. Crocamo, Jeffrey Lancaster, and Ellie Ransom
  • A tale of three libraries : lessons learned from three branch mergers at McGill University / Jill T. Boruff, Katherine Hanz, Sara Holder, Maya Kucij, Jessica Lange, and Amber Butler Lannon
  • One hundred years of history : closing and consolidating the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library / Amy Butros
  • Using data to make collections decisions : a case study from University of California, Berkeley / Susan Edwards and Hilary Schiraldi
  • Everything must move : coordinating the implementation of a large collection merger / Giovanna Badia
  • When libraries combine : creating a Georgia Regents University Libraries website / Virginia Feher and Kim Mears
  • Hidden from view : the role of organizational culture in collegiate restructuring / Lynn N. Baird
  • Branch mergers at the University of British Columbia Library : a case study in communication / Simon Neame.