Sources: Making A Difference: Leadership and Academic Libraries

Leadership formation: what difference is it making?

oday’s challenging economic environment leaves little room for businesses in any industry to expend resources that promise little or no return. The health care industry, and Catholic health care in particular, share this challenge. In the midst of these pressures, something appears to be happening within the Catholic health care community, something that speaks to the unique understanding we br...

A Complex Systems Framework for Research on Leadership and Organizational Dynamics in Academic Libraries

This article provides a historiographical analysis of major leadership and organizational development theories that have shaped our thinking about how we lead and administrate academic libraries. Drawing from behavioral, cognitive, systems, and complexity theories, this article discusses major theorists and research studies appearing over the past century. A complex systems framework is then pr...

A symbol-based fuzzy decision-making approach to evaluate the user satisfaction on services in academic digital libraries

Academic libraries play a significant role in providing core services that include research, teaching and learning. Usersatisfaction is an important indicator for evaluating the performance of library service. This paper develops a methodfor measuring the user satisfaction in a group decision-making environment. First, the performance of service isevaluated by using questionnaire survey. The sc...

Physician and scientist leadership in academic medicine: strategic planning for a successful academic leadership career.

In medical school and during the residency and fellowship training periods, the focus of the educational process centers appropriately on health, illness, and the disease process. This is the time period where skills are developed and honed to provide exemplary care of the patient as well as the development of research interests and proficiency. Once the training period has been completed, the ...

Making a Difference in Teacher Education Courses: A Psychological Reconsideration