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Papers, slides and recommended reading

Below you find papers and slides, as well as reading recommended by the lecturers. Not all lecturers wrote a special paper for the course.

General information

Module 1: Strategic Developments and Library Management

John Palfrey

  • Paper and/or slides
    • No paper or slides.
  • Recommended reading:
    • Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives / John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. - New York : Basic Books, 2008. - ISBN 9780465005154 (http://borndigitalbook.com/).

Annu Jauhiainen

Amos Lakos

Irmgard Bomers

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • Alan Andreasen and Philip Kotler, Strategic marketing for nonprofit organizations. - Upper Saddle River, N.J., [etc.]: Pearson Prentice Hall, cop. 2008. - ISBN 0-13-234554-4 (2007 edition available through See Amazon)
    • Richard Denny, Winning New Business, essential selling skills for non-sales people. - Kogan Page Ltd, 2007. - ISBN 0749450096 (available via Amazon)
    • Jarvis, Jeff, What Would Google Do?. - London: Collins, 2009. - ISBN 9780061709715 (available via Amazon)
    • Regis McKenna, Total Access, giving customers what they want in an anytime, anywhere world. - Harvard Business School Press, 2002. - ISBN 1578512441 (available via Amazon)
    • OCLC, Perception of libraries and information resources (www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm)

Module 2: Change: Making it Happen in Your Library

Jan Wilkinson and Lucy Jeynes

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • Cameron, Esther and Green, Mike. Making Sense of Change Management. - 2nd ed. - London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2009 (look up in WorlodCat)
    • Kotter, John P. Leading Change. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, 1996 (look up in WorldCat)
    • Lundin, Stephen C.; Christensen, John; Paul, Harry; Strand, Philip. Fish! A Remarkable Way To Boost Morale and Improve Results. - London : Hodder Mobius, 2006 (look up in WorldCat)
    • A managing change case study from a different sector (e.g. automotive, industrial, retail, theatre)
    • Personal management/leadership book from someone outside the professions (astronaut, football manager, etc.)

Deborah Shorley

Module 3: Tomorrow's Library Leaders

Jan Wilkinson and Lucy Jeynes

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • Goleman, Daniel; Boyatzis, Richard E.; McKee, Annie. The New Leaders: Transforming the Art of Leadership into the Science of Results (NLP focused). - London : Little, Brown, 2002 (look up in WorldCat)
    • Kotter, John P. A Sense of Urgency. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, 2008 (look up in WorldCat)
    • Kotter, John P. and Rathgeber, Holger. Our Iceberg Is Melting : Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006 (look up in WorldCat)
    • Lencioni, Patrick. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2002 (look up in WordCat)
    • Levicki, Cyril. Developing Leadership Genius : The Nature and Nurture of Leaders. - London ; Burr Ridge, IL : McGraw-Hill, 2001 (look up in WorldCat)
    • Manning, Antony D. Making Sense of Strategy. - New York : AMACOM, 2002 (look up in WorldCat)
    • Parry, Roger. Enterprise: The Leadership Role. - London : Profile, 2003 (look up in WorldCat)
    • Thomas, Mark; Miles, Gary; Fisk, Peter. The Complete CEO: The Executive's Guide to Consistent Peak Performance. - Chichester : Capstone, 2006 (look up in WorldCat)

Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • No recommended reading.

Module 4: Integrated Search Solutions Toward Catalogue 2.0

Thomas Place

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • No recommended reading.

Jørgen Madsen

David Lindahl

Mads Villadsen

Benoît Pauwels

Other material

Module 5: Libraries and Open Access

Heather Joseph

Marcel Ras and Marijke Dewaerheit

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • No recommended reading.

Tim Brody

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • No recommended reading.

Alma Swan

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading (this list represents the cream of resources from which people can locate all sorts of useful material):
    • Fowler, K., Persily, G. and Stemper, J. Developing a scholarly communication program in your library. Association of Research Libraries (www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/scprog/)
    • Association of College and Research Libraries. Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Promoting a Shared System of Research and Scholarship (www.acrl.ala.org/scholcomm/)
    • Association Research Libraries, SPARC and Association of College and Research Libraries. Create Change (www.createchange.org)
      • A rich resource for librarians wishing to develop advocacy programmes on scholarly communication in their institutions.
    • Greig, Morag (2005). Institutional Advocacy Campaign: Guidelines and Practical Advice (http://hdl.handle.net/1905/377)
      • A little dated now but still full of good advice based on real practical experience.
    • Swan, A. and Brown S. (2007). Researcher Awareness and Access to Open Access Content through Libraries: A Study for the JISC Scholarly Communications Group. School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton (http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14412/)
    • Swan, A. (2005). Open Access Self-Archiving: An Introduction. JISC, HEFCE (http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11006/)
    • eIFL.net, SPARC, and Science Commons. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook: Practical Steps for Implementing Open Access (http://openoasis.org/)
    • Enabling Open Scholarship towards an Open Access to Scientific Data (http://www.openscholarship.org)
      • A web resource for institutional and research managers. Much of the site is available to non-members and librarians will find useful material there for making a case to management for Open Access.

Module 6: Libraries and Research Data - Embracing New Content

Stephen Pinfield

Micah Altman

Chuck Humphrey

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • Geraci, Diane, Charles Humphrey and James Jacobs (2008). Providing Social Science Data Services: Strategies for Design and Operation. In: 2008 Syllabi and Reading Lists of the ICPSR Summer Program In Qualitative Methods in Social Research (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/biblio/2008/geraci.pdf)
    • Humphrey, Charles (2005). Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the CanadianDataLiberation Initiative. In: Resource Sharing & Information Networks; 18 (1/2) 2005, pp.167-181.
    • Humphrey, Chuck (2008). Radical Data Services. Presentation given at the Symposium on Institutional Data Services, South Hall, University of Edinburgh, 10-3, 5th December, 2008 (http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/25anniversary/Presentations/Humphrey.ppt)
    • The DLI Training Repository, which contains learning objects from almost all of the regional and national DLI workshops starting as far back as 1997 (https://ospace.scholarsportal.info/handle/1873/69)

Ken Miller

Other material

Module 7: Libraries and Collaborative Research Communities

Aldo de Moor

John Butler

Judith Wusteman

  • Paper and/or slides
  • Recommended reading:
    • Wusteman, Judith (2008). Virtual Research Environments: What is the Librarian's Role? In: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 2008, 40 (2) 67-70 (http://lis.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/40/2/67)
    • Virtual research environments: issues and opportunities for librarians. In: Library Hi Tech, volume 27, issue 2 , 2009 *Special Issue* (full text available via Emerald Insight if you have a license)
      • Editorial. Virtual research environments: Issues and opportunities for librarians. Judith Wusteman (pp. 169-173)
      • Virtual research environments in scholarly work and communications. Alexander Voss, Rob Procter (pp. 174-190)
      • Exploring new ways of working using virtual research environments in library and information science. Diane H. Sonnenwald, Monica Lassi, Nasrine Olson, Marisa Ponti, Ann-Sofie Axelsson (pp. 191-204)
      • Dealing with the complexity deluge: VREs in the arts and humanities. Stuart Dunn (pp. 205-216)
      • VRE library services: Learning from supporting VLE users. Alan Masson (pp. 217-227)
      • Virtual research environments - a Web 2.0 cookbook? Martin Myhill, Michele Shoebridge, Lee Snook (pp. 228-238)
      • On-demand virtual research environments andthe changing roles of librarians. Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano (pp. 239-251)

Gary Olson


"The TICER program has consistently brought together an exciting mix of speakers and evolved to meet emerging themes".

Wendy Lougee, University librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota Libraries, USA

1996, 1997, and 2008 lecturer