Uncomfortable bedfellows: enterprise and academic libraries  

Oleh:

Nicholson, Howard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science vol. 24 no. 1 (2008), page 9-14.
Fulltext: 9.pdf (573.34KB)

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This article considers the main motives for introducing entrepreneurial and other income-generating activities into academic libraries and offers useful advice to librarians who wish to engage in such projects, covering: compatibility of the entrepreneurial project with the library’s objectives; management of the projects so as not to undermine the library’s mainstream tasks; the need for institutional support at the highest level; and the acceptance of the risks that are always present. The article looks at the kinds of projects and enterprises that might be undertaken by a library and how they may be approached so as to maximize benefits and minimize effort. They range from small-scale activities, such as charging for photocopies and other services and sale of stationery and plastic bags through to large-scale items such as large funded research projects.

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