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Resistance to Change in Libraries: Application of Communication Theories
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 3, Number 1, January 2003
- pp. 69-78
- 10.1353/pla.2003.0022
- Article
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Libraries are affected by discontinuous change caused by the type and rapidity of technological innovations. By examining the theories of structuration, diffusion of innovation, and contingency, change in libraries can be better understood, thus easing its adoption and assimilation. There is a need to reconceptualize libraries.