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Managing Intellectual Capital in Libraries

Beyond the Balance Sheet

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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In the knowledge economy, professionals have to make decisions about non-tangible, non-monetary, and largely invisible resources. Information professionals need to understand the potential uses, contributions, value, structure, and creation of broadly intangible intellectual capital in libraries. In order to fully realize intellectual capital in libraries, new practices and skills are required for library management practitioners and researchers.

Managing Intellectual Capital in Libraries provides research advances, guidelines, methods and techniques for managing intellectual capital in a library environment, and includes analyses and case studies. This book includes a foreword by Anne Woodsworth and is structured into seven chapters, covering: libraries in the knowledge economy; worlds of production and intellectual capital utilization in libraries; identifying and categorizing intellectual capital; measuring libraries' intellectual capital; financial valuation and reporting of intellectual capital in libraries; and survival analysis for libraries' intellectual capital resources. The book concludes with a summary, and turns the reader towards future research.

Practical methods and techniques are outlined that can be applied to real-life library situations, as they have been extensively applied in other economic sectors
Provides illustrative examples and case studies for exploring and explaining the meaning of specific intangible assets and resources in libraries, such as user oriented intangible assets, library system automation and technology, library location, human capital, external relations and more
Considers libraries as intellectual capital within organizations and broader socioeconomic systems

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-02-23
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt460 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieChandos Information Professional Series
Antal sidor240
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9781843346784

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Petros A. Kostagiolas lectures in information services management at the Department of Archive and Library Science, Ionian University, Greece. He researches and teaches library management, quality and reliability management, and research methodology, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, UK. Petros has been a co-author of three other books, has published in international journals, and is a regular speaker at conferences.

DedicationList of figuresList of tablesList of abbreviationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbout the authorChapter 1: Libraries in the knowledge economy: introducing intellectual capital concepts Abstract:Introduction: libraries within the knowledge-driven economyIntellectual capital: fundamental concepts and definitionsReviewing intellectual capital for librariesDefining intellectual capital management in librariesSummaryChapter 2: Libraries’ Worlds of Production and intellectual capital utilization Abstract:The worlds of intellectual capital utilizationThe "Worlds of Production" framework analyzed for librariesLibraries’ intangible resources utilization within the Worlds of Production frameworkSummaryChapter 3: Identifying and categorizing intellectual capital in libraries Abstract:The need to identify and understand specific intangible assetsAn analysis of library intellectual capital resourcesLibrary goodwill and intangible assetsContract-based intangible assetsThe intellectual capital co-opetition dynamics in library networksLocation-related library intellectual capital and the location’s effect on library intellectual capitalSummaryChapter 4: Measuring libraries’ intellectual capital Abstract:IntroductionMetrics and measurement methods for intellectual capitalMetrics for library intellectual capital measurementBalanced Scorecard framework for library intellectual capital measurementSkandia Navigator for library intellectual capital measurementWeights and hierarchy of intellectual capital resourcesSummaryChapter 5: Financial valuation and reporting of intellectual capital in libraries Abstract:IntroductionFinance approach valuation methods for intellectual capitalLibrary value and value calculatorsLibrary accounting issues for intellectual capitalMethods for intellectual capital reporting in librariesSummaryChapter 6: Survival analysis for libraries’ intellectual capital resources Abstract:Motivation for life analysis of libraries’ intellectual capital resourcesSurvival considerations for intellectual capital in librariesProblem definition and background informationIllustrative example for library “user list intangible resourcesApplications of library intangible resource reliability analysisSummaryChapter 7: Putting it all together: summary and final thoughts for further research Abstract:A systems perspective for library intellectual capital managementThoughts for future researchReferencesIndex