Almquist, Arne J. and Sharon G. Almquist. Intrapreneurship Handbook for Librarians: How to be a Change Agent in your Library. Libraries Unlimited, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-61069-528-2
Description
What is being a library intrapreneur? Being empowered to find innovate ways to increase impact, grow resources, and develop new methods of leveraging the skills and perspectives of librarianship to enable the survival of libraries—all while enjoying your job more. The chapters guide readers through the intrapreneurial process—from writing a plan and selling it to administrators and other stakeholders, to securing funding for the idea and actualizing the plan.
Table of Contents
- Entrepreneurs
- Intrapreneurs
- Agent of change & the art of intrapreneurial innovation
- Calling all change agents : creating an intrapreneurial culture at your library
- The intrapreneurial process : finding the way to success
- Pitching your idea & getting others to join
- An innovation team and your place in it
- Implementation : the idea ascendant
- Completion to new beginnings
- Appendix A. The intrapreneur test
- Appendix B. The intrapreneurship test : comments.
