Articles on Library Organization and Restructuring


Allen, Barbara and Deborah Smith. "Using Total Quality Management Tools to Improve Library Processes," in Books to Bytes, Contributed Papers presented at the AzLA 1995 Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ:  November 1995.

Barnum, George, Atifa Rawan, Cheryl Knott Malone.  “A Virtual Depository:  The Arizona Project Pilot Project,” in Reference Librarian.  Submitted and accepted for publication.

Bender, Laura J. "Team Organization -- Learning Organization: The University of Arizona Four Years into It," in Information Outlook: The Monthly Magazine of the Special Libraries Association, September 1997, 1:9, p. 19-22.

Bosch, Stephen and Nancy Simons. "Reducing Rates of Inflation: Serials Cancellations at the University of Arizona," in Technical Services Quarterly, The Haworth Press, 1996, 14:1, p. 49-65.

Bracke, Marianne Stowell, Michael Brewer, Robyn Huff-Eibl, Daniel R. Lee, Robert Mitchell, and Michael Ray, “Finding Information in a New Landscape: developing New Service and Staffing Models for Mediated Information Services.” College & Research Libraries v.68 no. 3 (2007), pp. 248-267

Brin, Beth and Elissa Cochran. "Access and Ownership in the Academic Environment: One Library's Progress Report," in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 1994, 20:4, p. 207-212.

Diaz, Joseph R. and Chestalene Pintozzi.  "Helping teams work: lessons learned from the University of Arizona Library reorganization," in Library Administration and Management, Winter 1999, 13:1, p. 27-36.

Dickstein, Ruth and Mills, Vicki. "Usability Testing at The University of Arizona Library: How to Let the Users in on the Design," in Information Technology and Libraries, 2000, 19:2, p. 144-151, (http://www.lita.org/ital/1903_mills.html).

Dols, Linda, Karen Liston Newsome and Jerilyn R. Veldof. "A Process Improvement Approach to Interlibrary Loan," in Books to Bytes, Contributed Papers presented at the AzLA 1995 Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ:  November 1995, p. 10-27.

Feeney, Mary and Jill Newby.   “Model for Presenting Resources in Scholar's Portal,” Portal 5(2):195-211 (2005). 

Fiegen, Ann and Stephen Bosch. "Vendor Preprocessing of Approval Material and Cataloging Records for the University of Arizona Library, Chapter 2," in  Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public and Special Libraries.  Ed. Karen A. Wilson and Marylou Colver.  Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1997, p. 15-27.

Fiegen, Ann and Carol Christensen. "Process Improvement in Technical Services." Poster Session at Living the Future II, Tucson, AZ: April 24, 1998.

Fore, Janet and Barbara Allen. "Response to a Customer's Concern," in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, March 1995, 21:2, p. 85-86.

Glogoff, Stuart and Kristin A. Antelman. "Relieving Archival Gridlock: Congressional Archives on the Web," in Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 1997, 2:1, p. 39-50.

Glogoff, Stuart and Louise G. Glogoff. "Using the World Wide Web for community outreach: enriching library service to the community," in Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 1998, 3:1, p. 15-26.

Glogoff, Stuart and Micaela Morales. "Preserving the Old Pueblo: Oral History in the New Millennium," in Southwest Oral Association's Meeting, Pasadena, CA: April 25-27, 1997.

Greenfield, Louise, Atifa Rawan and Camille O'Neill.  "The Diversity Research Guide Program:  The University of Arizona Library's Experience," in Acquisitions Librarian, The Haworth Press, Inc., August 1993, 5:9-10, p. 115-129.

Holloway, Karen. “Developing Core and Mastery Level Competencies for Librarians,” in Library Administration and Management 17, no. 2, (Spring 2003):  94-98.

Holloway, Karen.  “University of Arizona Library,” in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 4, 2nd edition, 2003, edited by Miriam A. Drake.  New York:  Marcel Dekker, 2003.

Jackson, Mary E. and Krisellen Maloney.  “Portals, Super Discovery Tools and the New Academic Platform:  Ensuring a Collective Library Presence on the Web,” in The Proceedings of the ACRL 11th National Conference, Charlotte, NC, April 10-13, 2003.

Kamada, Hitoshi. "East Asian Collections and Organizational Transformation in Academic Libraries," in College and Research Libraries, March 2002, 63:2, p. 125-137.

Kollen, Christine, Jeanne Pfander, Louise Greenfield, Atifa Rawan, and Miriam Glanz.  “Creating the Arizona Electronic Atlas:  A GIS Partnership,” in Learning to Make a Difference:  Proceedings of the ACRL 11th National Conference, Charlotte, NC, April 10-13, 2003, edited by Hugh A. Thompson, 235-244.  Chicago:  American Library Association, 2003.

Kollen, Christine E., Nancy R. Simons and Jennalyn W. Tellman.  "Librarians in Split Positions with Both Technical and Public Services Responsibilities: The University of Arizona Library Experience," in Advances in Library Administration and Organization, JAI Press Inc., 1997, v. 15, p. 201-225;  Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1977.

Larson, Catherine A. "Customers first: using process improvement to improve service quality and efficiency," in Reference Services Review, Spring 1998, 26:1, p. 51-60.

Lee, Daniel.  “Constructing the Commons:  Practical Projects to Build the Information Commons,” in Knowledge Quest 31 (2003):  13-15.

Maloney, Krisellen.  “Portals:  What’s Good, What’s Missing, What’s Needed,” in The Proceedings of the World Library and Information Congress:  69th IFLA General Conference and Council, Berlin, Germany, August 1-9, 2003.

Newby, Jill.  “An Emerging Picture of Mathematicians' Use of Electronic Resources: The Effect of Withdrawal of Older Print Volumes,” Science & Technology Libraries 25 (4):65-85 (2005) 

Owens, Irene.  "The Impact of Change from Hierarchy to Teams in Two Academic Libraries: Intended Results versus Actual Results Using Total Quality Management," in College and Research Libraries, November 1999, 60:6, p. 571-584.

Oxnam, Maliaca, Laura Talamonti and Vicki Mills.  “Around the World to the University of Arizona Information Commons” Library Hi Tech News 20, no. 6 (July 2003): 38-40.

Phipps, Shelley E. "Transforming Libraries into Learning Organizations--The Challenge for Leadership," in Journal of Library Administration, The Haworth Press, Inc., 1993, 18:3/4, p. 19-37.

Phipps, Shelley E. and Cathy Larson, "The Five Disciplines--Learning Organizations and Technological Change," in Information Imagineering, Meeting at the Interface, American Library Association, Chicago and London, 1998.

Phipps, Shelley E. and Joseph R. Diaz "The Evolution of the Roles of Staff and Team Development in a Changing Organization:  The University of Arizona Library Experience," Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1997; Finding Common Ground Conference, Mar 30-31, 1996.

Phipps, Shelley E. "Performance measurement as a methodology for assessing team and individual performance: the University of Arizona Library experience" in Proceedings of the 3rd Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, August 27-31, 1999, p. 113-117.

Phipps, Shelley.  "The Use of the Process Improvement DMAIC and Six Sigma Approaches to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs at the University of Arizona Library 1995-2008," July 2009.

Pintozzi, Chestalene. "Having It All:  Strategies for Providing Monographic, Serial, and Electronic Resources in Tight Budget Times," Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. 1977; Finding Common Ground Conference, March 30-31, 1996.

Pintozzi, Chestalene. "Rethinking scholarly communication (Librarians raise awareness of faculty at the University of Arizona and elsewhere in the state)," in College & Research Libraries News, February 1996, 57:2, p. 88-91.

Promis, Patricia and Atifa Rawan. "Information Resources Development for Electronic Publications: An Academic Model," in Acquisitions Librarian (accepted and will be published shortly).

Promis, Patricia. "Developing a databased budget allocation strategy: The University of Arizona Library experience," in Collection Building, MCB University Press, 1996, 15:3, p. 5-9.

Rawan, Atifa R. and Jennifer Cox, "Government Publications Integration and Training," in Journal of Government Information, Elsevier Science Ltd., 1995, 22:3, p. 253-266,.

Rawan, Atifa, Malone, Cheryl K., and Bender, Laura J.  "Assessing the Virtual Depository Program:  The Arizona Experience," in Journal of Government Information 30 (invited article), August 7, 2003.

Renaud, Robert. "Learning to Compete: Competition, Outsourcing, and Academic Libraries," in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, March 1997, p. 85-90.

Russell, Carrie. "Using Performance Measurement to Evaluate Teams and Organizational Effectiveness," in Library Administration and Management, 12:3, 1998.

Stoffle, Carla J. "The Upside of Downsizing: Using the Economic Crisis to Structure and Revitalize Academic Libraries," in The Upside of Downsizing: Using Library Instruction to Cope. Edited by Cheryl LaGuardia. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1995, p. 1-13.

Stoffle, Carla and Shelley Phipps. “Meaningful Measures for Libraries,” in Library Issues, Briefings for Faculty and Administrators, March 2003, 23:4.

Stoffle, Carla, Barbara Allen, Krisellen Maloney, and David Morden.  “Continuing to Build the Future: Academic Libraries and their Challengers.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, no. 3, (July 2003): 363-380.

Stoffle, Carla, Patricia Morris, and Ninfa Trejo.  “Voices from the 21st Century: Librarians at the University of Arizona Library,” in Expectations of Librarians in the 21st Century edited by Karl Bridges. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2003.       

Tellman, Jennalyn W. "A Comparison of the Usefulness of IBZ and FRANCIS for Historical Research," in Reference & User Services Quarterly, Fall 2001,41:1, p. 56-65.

Trump, Polly.  "Self-Assessment of the Architecture Library, University of Arizona."  cited in The Library and the Accreditation Process in Design Disciplines: Best Practices (Occasional Paper No. 14) by Jeanne M. Brown, Paul Glassman and Janine J. Henri.  ARLIS/NA, 2003.