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Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries
Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity
- 1st Edition - August 23, 2017
- Author: John Wang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 0 3 1 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 0 3 2 - 6
Library Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries: Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity contains three sections, each comp… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLibrary Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries: Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity contains three sections, each comprised of several topical chapters on a particular subject. Part One explains why supply chain management is vital to libraries. Part Two builds on Part One, beginning with a classic supply chain model, including its brief history and current development. Part Three suggests a theoretical supply chain model based on emerging technological advancements of society. This model will develop based on four components, user goals, workflow efficiency, financial stewardship and core services.
- Introduces supply chain management to library and information science
- Provides the first study on supply chain integration for libraries to fulfill their mission in knowledge management and delivery
- Provides practitioners and researchers with a model and theoretical framework of the supply chain to further study library science
- Inspires researchers and practitioners to embrace or adopt emerging technologies for service and operational optimization
Academic librarians; library managers; library deans; graduate students, and researchers in LIS; university management and administration
- No. of pages: 182
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 23, 2017
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081020319
- eBook ISBN: 9780081020326
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John Wang
John Wang is Associate University Librarian at the Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame.
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Associate University Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre DameRead Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries on ScienceDirect