Library orthodoxies A decade of change     Blaise Cronin     ISBN 0 947568 46 8 1991 £25.00/US$46.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   CONTEXTS   Disjointed incrementalism and 1990 Adaption, extinction or genetic drift?     ASSETS   From vertical to horizontal resource management Public/private sector interaction Value for money: finding and taking fresh opportunities Taking the measure of service.   ORTHODOXIES   The uncontested orthodoxy Research libraries: an agenda for change The competitive campus: networking and higher education Courtship and competition on campus: networking and higher education.     MARKETS   The marketing of public library services in the United Kingdom - the rationale for a marketing approach Approaches to market research Nationally co-ordinated library promotion     EDUCATORS   On the outside looking in issues in education for librarianship and information science The electronic librarian Expert systems and library/information work     SKILLS   User education: getting our priorities right Social skills training in librarianship Libraries 2000 AD: the skills requirement