The Evolving Landscape of Library Leadership in UK Higher Education: Insights and Case Studies
Authors: Chun Wei Liu
DOI: 10.87349/JBUPT/281010
Page No: 149-172
Abstract
2017 saw a flurry of activity concerning academic library leadership in the UK. The sector’s professional body, SCONUL, published a succession of “state of the nation” reports under the aegis of its Leadership Task and Finish Group. Around the same time, Prime Minister Theresa May announced a major review of university funding and student finance in England and Wales in response to concerns over high levels of student debt arising from the current system of university finance (Morgan, 2017). This is a system which has helped fund many new university library buildings in the past decade not to mention subsidising library information resource budgets.
