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Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces

Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces

Acadia, Spencer

Hardcover

Business GeneralGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0367747103
ISBN13: 9780367747107
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 30 2022
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces expands the dysfunctional concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational levels.

Including contributions written by LIS professionals and scholars, the book demonstrates that although many libraries do well at attending to users and managing external information they often fail at taking care of their own employees and addressing internal workplace issues. Acadia and the contributing authors explore the problem of dysfunctional libraries so that the LIS profession can come to terms with the systemic dysfunction in their institutions and begin solution-oriented progress toward new and sustainable functionality. The book analyzes the dysfunctional nature of modern libraries, while simultaneously proposing solutions to reduce and alleviate dysfunction. Through theory and application, it takes an explicit practice-based approach with the intent to inform and explain dysfunction as experienced in the library workplace at individual and structural levels and perspectives.

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