International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001, Managing the Change Process Towards Your Library of the Future

Target group and learning objectives

Target group for course 1 of the Summer School were library managers/directors, deputy librarians/directors, and other senior managers involved with strategic change from academic and research libraries.

Participants should leave the course with:

  • knowledge of the context within which libraries now need to change in major ways, including major digital library challenges, new visions for libraries, new ways of supporting teaching and research, and innovation and potential new roles for libraries and librarians;
  • a sound knowledge of the theories of change management, processes and frameworks within which to plan and lead/participate in their own library change management programme;
  • practical techniques of change management and what works well and badly in different circumstances, learnt through real case studies.

Ticer home summer school

Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources
Ticer, PO Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, The Netherlands,
telephone +31-13-466 83 10, telefax +31-13-466 83 83, e-mail ticer@uvt.nl
last updated 3 December 2001