Success factors for the future of information centres, commercial and public libraries: a study from Germany

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations Programs: A Review of the Critical Success Factors

“…Unsurprisingly, a search in the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) yielded fewer than 40 articles with a focus on CSFs. The LIS researchers' focus is on various themes, including knowledge management, 19 resource sharing, 20 information centers management, 21 usage of electronic information resources, 22 library gateways, 23 information quality management, 24 digital libraries (DLs), 25 institutional repositories (IRs), 26 and information systems. 27 There are a few valuable studies on the factors affecting the implementation of institutional repositories but without an explicit focus on CSFs (examples: Cassella, 28 Giesecke, 29 Lihitkar and Lihitkar, 30 Shearer, 31 Thibodeau, 32 Westell 33 ).…”