Target group and learning objectives
	The "Change: Making it Happen in your Library" course aimed at library managers/directors and other senior managers from academic and research libraries involved with strategic change. The course offered senior managers: strategic and visionary keynote addresses; case studies with peers, sharing relevant experiences with change programmes; practical sessions with tools, techniques, and tips for introducing wholesale change; facilitated workshop sessions, with the opportunity to learn from one another's experience. All this in a proven format, which received excellent feedback from delegates in previous year. Participants left 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 their own library change management programmes; practical techniques of change management and what works well and badly in different circumstances, learnt through real case studies. The course was highly participative. Learning took place through a combination of formal lectures from practitioners and management experts, discussion and sharing of experience, and a large case-study which ran throughout the course. Participants were expected to bring their own experience to bear on their learning, and draw up their own action plan for their return to the workplace.

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Ticer, PO Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, The Netherlands,
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last updated 22 August 2003