Description: This book identifies the key skills and attitudes needed by the library leaders of today and tomorrow and delivers a balanced view of the future of the profession.
Review Quotes: In compiling this international collection (the nine contributors are from Australia, Singapore, Greece, Sweden, the United States and Britain, and a number have extensive international experience) editor Steve O'Connor requested authors to 'write about the impact of "disruptive change" on libraries, library management and library managers as they saw it' (xiii). The challenge has elicited a remarkably broad range of responses in essays that both stand-alone but also cohere sufficiently to produce a collection that will have benefit for anyone experiencing rapid workplace change-both managers and the managed...there is some genuine insight and value in each of the chapters and the book can be recommended to a wide readership. While managers will get value by being challenged to think about the change activities within their own organisations, it will also give their staff the chance to (re)consider the issues that confront managers as they undertake change, and the extent to which the interests of all parties might be served by embracing disruption.