There is a trend in academic libraries to hire consultants for internal crises, change management projects, strategic planning processes, outcomes assessment, evidence-based decision making, information literacy instruction, and more. Although we hear informally about the use of consultants in academic libraries, the practice has gone unexamined. We employ a historical and linguistic analysis of consultants in academic libraries, using a critical framework for this research. A critical perspective provides a structure to discuss issues that librarians may not have been able to previously fit into library practice dialogue. A chronological history of consulting in libraries acts as our literature review. This review, along with a targeted ex...
Archival consultants can offer expertise in the general institutional evaluation of an archives, arc...
Research is a policy-making imperative for public library practitioners. It helps them understand t...
I am pleased to have this opportunity to bring a North American perspective to these discussions. We...
There is a trend in academic libraries to hire consultants for internal crises, change management pr...
Most of the literature about consultants in the field of academic librarianship relates to the const...
Consultants are retained to assist libraries in identifying, designing, and implementing solutions t...
The aim of this study is to deepen the knowledge of how libraryusers, library personnel and the rela...
Strategic planning documents are key sites to institutional discourse and reflect the public face of...
Managerialism is an ideology that presents management as the center of organizations, shifting power...
THEREARE A NUMBER of ways in which consultingon library buildings' differs sharply from any oth...
Library consultancy is usually seen more as the business and revenue genera/ion arm of the library. ...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the paradoxical image of consultants as “experts w...
A team approach to analysis of library operations is suggested. A spe-cific example of staffing libr...
In this article a reflection on the meaning of the academic library in the 21st century is proposed ...
Some discourses of organizational consulting assume consultants must have a special type of expertis...
Archival consultants can offer expertise in the general institutional evaluation of an archives, arc...
Research is a policy-making imperative for public library practitioners. It helps them understand t...
I am pleased to have this opportunity to bring a North American perspective to these discussions. We...
There is a trend in academic libraries to hire consultants for internal crises, change management pr...
Most of the literature about consultants in the field of academic librarianship relates to the const...
Consultants are retained to assist libraries in identifying, designing, and implementing solutions t...
The aim of this study is to deepen the knowledge of how libraryusers, library personnel and the rela...
Strategic planning documents are key sites to institutional discourse and reflect the public face of...
Managerialism is an ideology that presents management as the center of organizations, shifting power...
THEREARE A NUMBER of ways in which consultingon library buildings' differs sharply from any oth...
Library consultancy is usually seen more as the business and revenue genera/ion arm of the library. ...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the paradoxical image of consultants as “experts w...
A team approach to analysis of library operations is suggested. A spe-cific example of staffing libr...
In this article a reflection on the meaning of the academic library in the 21st century is proposed ...
Some discourses of organizational consulting assume consultants must have a special type of expertis...
Archival consultants can offer expertise in the general institutional evaluation of an archives, arc...
Research is a policy-making imperative for public library practitioners. It helps them understand t...
I am pleased to have this opportunity to bring a North American perspective to these discussions. We...