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Main Author: Audunson, Ragnar
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1999
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ602016
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  • Between Professional Field Norms and Environmental Change Impetuses: A Comparative Study of Change Processes in Public Libraries. Audunson, Ragnar Change Comparative Analysis Information Industry Library Development Library Science Library Services Organizational Climate Organizational Development Public Libraries Standards Examines whether the established and traditional norms and standards of public librarianship structure the way challenges such as market orientation and privatization are met and coped with, or whether these standards are losing their structuring power. Compares three metropolitan library systems representing three different levels of environmental turbulence. Concludes that field external, environmental tendencies decide the direction of change. (Author/AEF)