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Academic Librarians and Project Management: An International Study
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 16, Number 3, July 2016
- pp. 465-475
- 10.1353/pla.2016.0038
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Because information and documentation units in libraries have responsibility for an ever-increasing number of projects, this paper aims at analyzing the discipline of project management in library and information science (LIS) from a professional perspective. To that end, the researchers employed quantitative and qualitative methodology based on a questionnaire of 17 items sent to academic librarians. The questions dealt with the geographic origin and institutional affiliation of the respondents, the education of the librarians, their professional experience, and the library projects in which they have been involved. The survey also asked about the presence of project management as courses in library and information science studies.