Understanding Public Libraries: Strategy, Leadership, and Ideology

by John Pateman

Understanding Public Libraries: Management, Leadership and Ideology calls on practitioners, students and researchers to fully understand public libraries in order to change them and ensure their survival into the future. In it, experienced library leader John Pateman introduces a new analytical framework, based on the theories of dialectical materialism and cultural hegemony, to the public library. This framework can be used to identify three models...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783306831
• ISBN13: 9781783306831
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Length: 222 Pages