The Only Certainty is Change: A Library Management Response to a Changing Environment

The theme of this year’s LIBER conference emphasises the changing missions libraries envisage for the decade ahead and the different skills that are needed to fulfil these missions. However, change - a word we are hearing often during this week - does not materialise in a void, it does not just happ...

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Main Author: Mirjam M. Foot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 1999-05-01
Series:Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
Online Access:https://test.openjournals.nl/liberquarterly/article/view/10148
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spelling doaj-6a29fc6744bd412990a1bb75df20144c2021-09-30T14:28:39Zengopenjournals.nlLiber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries2213-056X1999-05-0193The Only Certainty is Change: A Library Management Response to a Changing EnvironmentMirjam M. FootThe theme of this year’s LIBER conference emphasises the changing missions libraries envisage for the decade ahead and the different skills that are needed to fulfil these missions. However, change - a word we are hearing often during this week - does not materialise in a void, it does not just happen. There are reasons for the changing world in which libraries need to function and I would like to start by looking at a few of them.https://test.openjournals.nl/liberquarterly/article/view/10148
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