Innovation and the library : the adoption of new ideas in public libraries

Author(s)

• Pungitore, Verna Leah

Bibliographic Information

Innovation and the library : the adoption of new ideas in public libraries

Verna L. Pungitore

（Contributions in librarianship and information science, no. 86）

Greenwood Press, 1995

Note

Bibliography: p. [181]-186

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Today's rapidly evolving information-based society demands that public libraries implement planned, proactive, and innovative change to meet patron needs. Rapid, widespread, and substantive change and innovation in public librarianship depends on the ability of public librarians to share in the exchange of new ideas, regardless of the size of their communities. This book explores how managerial innovations are generated and disseminated among public librarians. To examine how new ideas are created and spread among public librarians, the volume focuses on the case of the dissemination of a particular innovation, a set of techniques developed and promoted by a national professional association, which allows public librarians to engage in user-oriented planning, community-specific role setting, and self-evaluation of library performance. This case study is placed within a larger context of classical models of the diffusion process and the literature on organizational change and innovation. Drawing on her findings, the author offers suggestions to facilitate public library change.

Table of Contents

Preface Public Libraries, Change, and Innovation Public Libraries and Organizational Change: An Overview Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations Evolutionary Change in Public Libraries: 1920-1965 Life History of a Public Library Innovation Prelude to Innovation: 1966-1979 Development and Dissemination of the Innovation PLDP: The Modified Innovation Toward a Model of Public Library Innovation Diffusion Among Smaller Libraries: 1980-1990 Patterns of Implementation in Smaller Libraries Fitting the Public Library Experience to the Models Facilitating Innovation in Public Libraries References Index

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Details

• NCID: BA25805161
• ISBN:
  • 0313286736
• LCCN: 95003808
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 189 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Z731
  • DC20 : 037.473
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Public libraries -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00040202