Alexander Schuster: Wissensbilanzen. Ein strategisches Managementinstrument – auch für Bibliotheken (= Excellence in Teaching and Learning 1). Berlin: BibSpider 2009, 156 S. ISBN 978-3-936960-33-4

Review of "Alexander Schuster: Wissensbilanzen. Ein strategisches Managementinstrument – auch für Bibliotheken", Berlin: BibSpider 200

Berndt Dugall, Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, im Interview

In this interview, Berndt Dugall describes the changes in his professional life lasting nearly forty years. The transition from printed to electronic media has deeply changed role and function of libraries. Today's libraries have to offer their services in a completely changed environment. Competing with global enterprises, like Google and Amazon, libraries all over the world have to become a more consistent network, especially with regard to the international standards of their cataloguing rules. If libraries want to remain a key service provider, they have to react more quickly to changes and to find solutions, which are less perfect

Unfreeze and Move! Veränderungsdynamik und Organisationsentwicklung an der Universitätsbibliothek Mainz

Mit der Neubestellung der Leitung einer Bibliothek gehen in der Regel zahlreiche Initiativen zur Definition und Umsetzung von Veränderungsmaßnahmen einher. Die gezielte Verbesserung des operativen Bereichs steht neben der strategischen Neupositionierung oder der Bearbeitung der Organisationskultur. Ein klassisches Change Management, das zudem häufig schematisch eingesetzt wird, greift hier zu kurz. Vielmehr gilt es, eine konsequente Organisationsentwicklung zu etablieren und den Veränderungsprozess entsprechend zu integrieren. Entscheidend sind nicht die produzierten Papiere und Konzepte, sondern die nachhaltigen Veränderungen der jeweiligen organisationalen Realität. Der Aufsatz führt diese Konstellation am Beispiel der Universitätsbibliothek Mainz vor und blickt retrospektiv auf fünf Jahre Organisationsentwicklung zurück, stellt die gegenwärtige Situation dar und denkt die weitere Vorgehensweise kurz- bis mittelfristig in die Zukunft. The appointment of a new director in a library usually comes along with a series of initiatives in order to define and implement measures of change. The targeted improvement of the operational business is addressed as well as a strategic repositioning or changes within the organisational culture. Change management in its traditional form, which, moreover, is often exercised in a schematic way, falls short here. Instead, it is essential to establish a consistent organisational development and to integrate the measures of change appropriately. Not the papers and concepts prepared are crucial here, but the sustainable changes of the respective organisational reality. The paper demonstrates this constellation by using the example of the Mainz University Library. It looks back at a process of five years of organisational development, outlines the present situation, and delineates the next steps for the short-term and medium-term future

Die Bibliothek in der Zukunft: regional – global: Lesen, Studieren und Forschen im Wandel. Festschrift für Hofrat Dr. Martin Wieser. Hrsg. von Klaus Niedermair und Dietmar Schuler. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2015, 438 S.

Book review of "Die Bibliothek in der Zukunft: regional – global: Lesen, Studieren und Forschen im Wandel. Festschrift für Hofrat Dr. Martin Wieser. Ed. by Klaus Niedermair und Dietmar Schuler. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2015, 438 S.

Conducting focus group research in a design science project: Application in developing a process model for the front end of innovation

Focus groups are a popular qualitative research method often applied to different areas of such as in medical research. The aim of this research paper is to apply and test the focus group procedure by Tremblay et al. in the setting of a current design science study on the Front End of Innovation. The main results of the current paper are an empirical testing of the Tremblay et al. method and proposed modifications of this method based on said testing. These results confirm that focus groups, conducted in compliance with said method, can be of great use in design science projects to support refining and evaluating artifacts. The results obtained in such manner can provide essential contributions to the knowledge base. The findings also indicate that the approach by Tremblay et al. does not address particular research-setting specific factors, such as the right timing when to actually conduct the focus group, the background of an organization, the contextual influences in participant selection process or the definition of an appropriate setting for the focus group study. The current paper addresses the strengths as well as the shortcomings detected in the current setting and proposes modifications to the Tremblay method

Conducting focus group research in a design science project: Application in developing a process model for the front end of innovation

Focus groups are a popular qualitative research method often applied to different areas of such as in medical research. The aim of this research paper is to apply and test the focus group procedure by Tremblay et al. in the setting of a current design science study on the Front End of Innovation. The main results of the current paper are an empirical testing of the Tremblay et al. method and proposed modifications of this method based on said testing. These results confirm that focus groups, conducted in compliance with said method, can be of great use in design science projects to support refining and evaluating artifacts. The results obtained in such manner can provide essential contributions to the knowledge base. The findings also indicate that the approach by Tremblay et al. does not address particular research-setting specific factors, such as the right timing when to actually conduct the focus group, the background of an organization, the contextual influences in participant selection process or the definition of an appropriate setting for the focus group study. The current paper addresses the strengths as well as the shortcomings detected in the current setting and proposes modifications to the Tremblay method

Move! UB 2020 – Change an der Universitätsbibliothek Mainz

Die Universitätsbibliothek Mainz arbeitet intensiv daran, sich als professionelle und aktive Dienstleistungseinrichtung weiterzuentwickeln sowie strategisch stark für die Zukunft aufzustellen. Um diese Vorhaben beschleunigt und nachhaltig umzusetzen, wurde auf der Basis einer seit 2011 konsequent betriebenen Organisationsentwicklung ein breit angelegter Veränderungsprozess begonnen. Unter dem Motto „UB 2020 – Gemeinsam Zukunft gestalten“ wurde das Projekt bewusst prozessfokussiert und themenoffen gestartet. Seit Ende 2014 wurde ein Themenportfolio erarbeitet und die Projektorganisation entwickelt. In der Folge wurden bislang fünf Teilprojekte aufgesetzt, die von einer ausgeprägten Beteiligung der Bibliotheksmitarbeiterinnen und -mitarbeiter getragen werden. Die Teilprojekte bilden verschiedene Perspektiven ab, von der Definition strategischer Ziele oder der Positionierung innerhalb der Universität bis hin zur Gestaltung innovativer Dienstleistungen. Auch die Bearbeitung der internen Themen Entwicklung der Organisationskultur bzw. Aufgabenverteilung zentral / dezentral ist erfolgsentscheidend.The Mainz University Library strives to further improve its services and to strategically plan ahead for the future. To achieve these goals faster as well as more effectively, we have started to implement several coordinated changes, all based on a development plan that has been consequently pursued since 2011. According to our motto „UB 2020 – Shaping the Future Together“, we deliberately conceptualized this project as a process, without pre-selecting specific areas of activity. Since late 2014, a portfolio of possible topics has been put together and the general organizational framework of the project has been developed. So far, we have come up with five sub-projects in which the library staff is heavily involved. The sub-projects cover various areas, including the definition of strategic goals, the positioning of the library within the university, and the development of new innovative services. Internal questions such as how to develop an organizational culture and how to allocate tasks within the library system will also be crucial for the succes

Berndt Dugall, Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, im Interview

In this interview, Berndt Dugall describes the changes in his professional life lasting nearly forty years. The transition from printed to electronic media has deeply changed role and function of libraries. Today's libraries have to offer their services in a completely changed environment. Competing with global enterprises, like Google and Amazon, libraries all over the world have to become a more consistent network, especially with regard to the international standards of their cataloguing rules. If libraries want to remain a key service provider, they have to react more quickly to changes and to find solutions, which are less perfect