Abstract

Duane Webster is a visionary leader who, throughout his career, has had a significant impact on the improvement of libraries and librarianship. His work to establish the Association of Research Library's (ARL) Office of Management Studies (OMS) and its several organizational improvement programs laid the foundation for organization development in libraries. These programs included a series of management and leadership institutes that have proven to be important and substantive for the development of many managerial leaders in librarianship.

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