TY - BOOK ID - 134015649 TI - Libraries as dysfunctional organizations and workplaces PY - 2023 SN - 9780367747091 9780367747107 PB - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Library personnel management KW - Library personnel management KW - Communication in library administration. KW - Library employees KW - Libraries KW - Organizational behavior. KW - Work environment. KW - Attitudes. KW - Sociological aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134015649 AB - "Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces expands the 'dysfunctional' concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational level. Including contributions written by LIS professionals and scholars, the book demonstrates that although many libraries do well at attending to users and managing external information they often fail at taking care of their own employees and addressing internal workplace issues. Acadia and the contributing authors explore the problem of dysfunctional libraries so that the LIS profession can come to terms with the systemic dysfunction in their institutions and begin solution-oriented and change-positive progress toward new and sustainable functionality. The book analyses the dysfunctional nature of modern libraries, while simultaneously proposing solutions to reduce and alleviate dysfunction. Through theory and application, it takes an explicit practice-based approach with the intent to inform and explain dysfunction as experienced in the library workplace at individual and structural levels and perspectives. Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces brings the dysfunction discourse to the attention of LIS academics and scholars, so that further theoretical and empirical research can proceed from and subsequently be addressed in library and information schools. The book will also be essential reading for librarians and LIS students currently working or preparing to work in public, college, and university libraries"-- ER -