Research for change: Creating strategic futures for public libraries

Holt, Glen E.

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Title

Research for change: Creating strategic futures for public libraries

Author(s)

Holt, Glen E.

Issue Date

1992

Keyword(s)

• Library science --Research
• Public libraries
• Library administration --Decision making

Abstract

Research is a policy-making imperative for public library practitioners. It helps them understand the cognitive errors that limit their operation, establish a policy framework for their operations, and assess operational efficiency and effectiveness. A growing insufficiency of applied or action research on public libraries creates the need for practitioners to undertake studies themselves. This need is greater because of rapid demographic, economic, and cultural changes associated with the information age. These changes and public library responses to them are explored in some detail. The research projects of the St. Louis Public Library are summarized. The article ends with an invitation for cooperation to obtain more research on public libraries and a call for a second Public Library Inquiry as an appropriate mechanism to inspire new commitment to such research.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (33rd : 1991)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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