TY - JOUR
AU - Acadia, Spencer
AB - This article offers a conceptual framework of library dysfunction by defining it in terms of ‘trap-gaps’ that happen when libraries become stuck relying on their outdated, legacy habits that, in turn, lead to discontinuities in new organizational knowledge, competency, and strategy. According to the Organizational Trap-Gap Framework, library leaders may address trap-gaps by blending theories and methods from knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational behavior, and organizational development; supporting a new culture of learning that relies on the socially interactive and performative elements of play, questioning, and imagination; and applying new, reformed processes of knowing, competence, and strategizing. The article concludes with a hypothetical consideration of the trap-gap framework using lack of organizational communication as an example along with further reflection on pertinent issues related to library leaders’ utility of the framework such as top-down dynamics, ethics, and cultural environment.
TI - The Organizational Trap-Gap Framework: A conceptual view of library dysfunction
JF - IFLA Journal
DO - 10.1177/0340035219870199
DA - 2020-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-organizational-trap-gap-framework-a-conceptual-view-of-library-tQ9gMKL4Po
SP - 72
EP - 87
VL - 46
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -