An intrapreneurial approach to integrating information production services into an academic medical center library.
The many challenges faced by health sciences libraries of all types and sizes often require innovative solutions. When an innovative solution involves calculated risk taking, the approach is called intrapreneurial. At the University of Miami School of Medicine, an intrapreneurial approach solved the fiscal problems of the biomedical communications unit. The Louis Calder Memorial Library inherited these problems when the Department of the Library and Biomedical Communications was created in the early 1980s. In this paper, two intrapreneurial programs are described, and the benefit and suitability of this management style to information services are demonstrated.
Lemkau
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Department of the Library and Biomedical Communications, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101.
Burrows
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Stolz
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D003196:Computer Graphics; D005431:Florida; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008122:Local Area Networks; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014743:Videotape Recording