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Assigned Leaders in Unionized Environments: Coping with the Economic Recession and Its Aftermath in Academic Libraries.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Assigned Leaders in Unionized Environments: Coping with the Economic Recession and Its Aftermath in Academic Libraries./
Author:	Lim, Adriene.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2012,
Description:	388 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-10A(E).
Subject:	Library science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3515733
ISBN:	9781267427342

Assigned Leaders in Unionized Environments: Coping with the Economic Recession and Its Aftermath in Academic Libraries.
Lim, Adriene.

Assigned Leaders in Unionized Environments: Coping with the Economic Recession and Its Aftermath in Academic Libraries. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2012 - 388 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simmons College, 2012.

Despite the fact that the rate of unionism has grown in institutions of higher education over the past several decades, and the recent economic recession occurred at the same time that academic libraries faced accelerating changes in scholarly communication and technology, increased demands for accountability, and heightened external competition, few research studies existed in the current literature of library and information science about the changes that have occurred in unionized libraries and in their assigned leaders' ability to transform their organizations. This dissertation begins to fill the void through a multiple-case study of four academic libraries, where the perspectives of university and library administrators were considered in relation to: (1) changes occurring in unionized libraries as a result of the economic crisis; (2) the effects of unionization on assigned leaders' attempts to handle the crisis; (3) the benefits and constraints that library administrators encounter as a result of working within unionized contexts during economic recessions; and (4) the strategies used for handling changes in unionized, financially stressed environments.

ISBN: 9781267427342Subjects--Topical Terms:

539284
Library science.

Assigned Leaders in Unionized Environments: Coping with the Economic Recession and Its Aftermath in Academic Libraries.
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