Research on New Trend of Library Organization and Management of Colleges and Universities

The libraries of colleges and universities must develop innovation organization and management to cope with the demand for new services. Based on Ithaka S+R’s organization work of the research library report, we could see many new trends for the research of library organization work, for example, the flexibility and agility of organization structure, the open and transparence of organization strategy, the innovation and transformation of organization culture, the outreach of organization function, and the interaction of organization technology. This report give much enlightenment for domestic libraries of colleges and universities on organization. Keywords—Libraries of Colleges and Universities, Organization Work, Organization Structure, Organization Strategy, Organization Environment CLC number: G250 Document code: B Ithaka S+R is a non-profit service organization which is dedicated to leading economic and technological innovation through academic research. The organization focuses on two major areas of research: “educational transformation” and “library and academic exchange”. In order to promote the vigorous development of colleges and universities in the environment of emerging technologies and new academic exchanges, help academic communities to use digital technology to preserve academic records and achieve sustainable development of teaching and research. Cooperating with foundations, libraries, publishing houses, universities and other cultural institutions[1], Ithaka S+R periodically publishes research reports on the subject of “library and academic exchange”. These reports have important reference significance for the decision-making and planning of libraries and other information specialized agencies and have been chosen by some international famous conferences and reports. In the library trend forecast and future outlook articles written by well-known domestic scholars (such as Towards the Third Generation Library by Wu Jianzhong and Natural Selection of the Fittest Survives by Chu Jingli [2~3]) the source cited the findings of Ithaka S+R survey is also often seen. It can be seen that the research report on Ithaka S+R “Library and Academic Exchange” is not only passive feedback on the development trends and foreseeable trends, but also triggers more extensive discussion, analysis and action in the international library community while providing strategic reference information. I. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LIBRARIES OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Organization management refers to the process of classifying and combining various business activities necessary to achieve organization goals, dividing different management levels and departments, authorizing managers at various levels and departments, and specifying the coordination relationship between these levels and departments. Organization work changes dynamically with changes of the internal and external environment and organization goals. Ithaka S+R believes that libraries of colleges and universities around the world are undergoing a subversive transformation. E books, sharing, opening, association, characteristic services and social participation explain the new features of libraries in the new era. In order to support this strategic transformation, libraries need to develop innovative work organization models to tap their potential as campus cooperation centers and knowledge centers supporting teaching and research[4]. As a result, Ithaka S+R takes the organization of libraries of colleges and universities as a topic and conducts empirical research. The research was carried out through telephone interviews with 18 university librarians. In terms of interviewee, Ithaka S+R specially chose curators of libraries with a certain organization scale and able to reflect organization complexity. In terms of interview content, Ithaka S+R focused on those organization structures undergoing changes or were in the pilot phase, as well as the unique opinions of curators on the leadership model, decision-making model and organization structure. In terms of interview method, Ithaka S+R chose semistructured interview methods, in addition to asking a series of prepared questions on the reminder list, encouraging interviewees to think deeply about organization leadership and organization structure from the perspective of their unique leadership experience. Interviewers could also conduct more free dialogues to discuss the problems according to the interviewees’ preferences[4]. Finally, through data collection and analysis before, during and after the interview, Ithaka S+R “Organization Management of Libraries of Colleges and Universities” report was officially released on August 18, 2016. The report mainly reveals five aspects[4]:(1)Combing the common organization and leadership modes of libraries of colleges and universities, including five modes of sub-department responsibility, service point, joint librarian, agency and selforganization team, and expounding the characteristics and application scope of different modes;(2)Analyzes the division of labor among different roles in the leadership team of libraries of colleges and universities, including the responsibilities of 8th International Conference on Education and Management (ICEM 2018) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 75