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The complexities of change, leadership and technology in Australian university libraries

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In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of managing change in university libraries during recent decades and how to manage change in libraries during ICT advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) has been a disruptive force for libraries.
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Managing change in university libraries has been a critical issue for libraries during recent decades. Revolutionary advancement in information and communication technologies (ICT) has been a disruptive force for all libraries. Technology has significantl

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Re-conceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education

TL;DR: Reconceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education for the twenty-first century is a research project in this paper, which aims to re-conceptualise and reposition Australian Library and Information Science education.

Library collaboration: what makes it work? (Keynote paper)

TL;DR: The TriUniversity Group (TUG) library collaboration as mentioned in this paper was one of the first large-scale library collaboration efforts, which was initiated by the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University.

The University of Queensland Library: a centenary history, 1910-2010

John W. East
TL;DR: AckNowLEDgEments as mentioned in this paper draws heavily upon the reports, publications, reminiscences and photographs of current and former employees of The University of Queensland Library, to all of whom we express our gratitude.
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Building theories from case study research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define a leadership event as a perceived segment of action whose meaning is created by the interactions of actors involved in producing it, and present a set of innovative methods for capturing and analyzing these contextually driven processes.