1. Which management models currently being advocated in professional writings are being adapted by science librarians in academic libraries?

4. Design Science librarians at three libraries are targeted for initial input conducted by telephone interview. A literature review will be conducted using keywords and phrases to access what is actually available in current publications (2006-2008) that could include library science and academic business journals and books on management theory. Data analysis Qualitative: Input from Librarians Quantitaive: Content analysis by keywords and phrases, librarian responses tallied Data collection Short open questionnaire Literature review Answer questions

8. Interview Questions What management issues concern you? What professional publications do you read? Which publications have you found to be most helpful? Are there any noticeable gaps in available management information? Are there any authors in the field that you would particularly recommend?

9. Step 3 – Literature review The publications cited by the librarians will become the basis of the literature review, although it is also important not to limit it to those publications. Using the key words and phrases from the specialty publications cited by the librarians, it will then be fairly simple to cross reference and see if other academic publications in business or library science may also contain useful information about management. Hopefully the results will indicate what further research may be most useful to these librarians as well as giving a good picture of the information currently available to them.