Preface
After nine years of taking part in major changes in the German National Library of Science and Technology and University Library Hannover (TIB/UB) as leader of the Financial Management and Administration Department and being responsible for Corporate Management and Personnel Development, I’m more than ever interested in change processes and in the new challenges arising for leaders in libraries.
During those nine years the TIB/UB introduced teamwork, integrated parts of another library, developed and implemented a strategy and began working with the Balanced Scorecard as their management tool, just to name a few of the deliberate large-scale changes.
In my doctoral thesis (Düren, 2009), I have analysed the impact of leadership styles ...
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