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Management of information centres and IT

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Jonathan Gordon-Till

Date:

Thursday, 23rd Sep 2004 12:01

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Are there any good reasons why information centres/libraries and ICT/IS/IT teams (particularly in a corporate environment) should *NOT* be merged into the same department or co-managed?

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	Management of information centres and IT
	Are there any good reasons why information centres/libraries and ICT/IS/IT teams (particularly in a corporate environment) should NOT be merged ...

Jonathan Gordon-Till

23/09/04 12:01

30032

	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	I may be the first (and only?) contributor to this discussion who is actually responsible for a 'converged' information service ...

Allan Foster

23/09/04 19:59

30045

	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	Hi folks, I've worked in a number of environments like this now. The thing to realise is that the two disciplines have ...

Rob

23/09/04 17:44

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	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	My own (rather cynical) experience of the merger of information centres / libraries with IT teams in the corporate sector ...

Bill Raschen

23/09/04 14:46

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	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	... co-managed by who? An IT person in charge of LIB, a LIB person in charge of IT? The question ...

Philip Sidaway

23/09/04 13:50

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	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	I am thinking in particular about an IT-savvy LIB person managing a combined KM/LIB/ICT/IS/IT department. The obverse is, of ...

Jonathan Gordon-Till

23/09/04 16:40

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	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	Bias is, of course, impossible to overcome. We all view the world from our own perspective. However, philosophical statements aside, ...

Philip Sidaway

23/09/04 16:47

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	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	Many thanks. I don't disagree with your opinion. What if the management is done by a "KM person" ...

Jonathan Gordon-Till

23/09/04 16:56

30042

	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	... that would be some perfect solution. Would then be a matter of a) how 'good' a manager they were; ...

Philip Sidaway

23/09/04 16:59

30043

	Re: Management of information centres and IT
	I sit in on a fortnightly management team meeting with my boss and team leaders from IT as he manages ...

Neil Infield

01/10/04 16:47

30154

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