William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson. The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2011. 272p. alk. paper, $95.00 (ISBN 9781584562894). LC2011-003557

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  • Michael Ryan
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upon how his strategies and recommendations might be different for different types of library systems. For example, the goals, missions, and user groups are different for a public library than they are for an academic library. Still, some of Huber’s ideas are very controversial and thought provoking. Strategy 10, for instance, discusses alternatives to traditional selectors for collection development. Regardless of whether a reader embraces all of the ideas Huber presents, I think his book will motivate readers to challenge the way they do things in their libraries. Huber points out that, for a library system to implement Lean strategies, the library must embrace Lean concepts from both the top down and bottom up. Therefore, a diversity of library employees from across the workplace hierarchy would benefit from reading this book. Primarily, however, I think this book would be of interest to senior library employees in decision-making positions. If a library system is undergoing change to become Lean, I would recommend that staff in that library system read this book as well to help explain to staff what changes are expected and to elicit bottom-up input to augment the change process.—Nicole Nolan, The University of Western Ontario.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • C&RL

دوره 73  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012