Subcultures and values in academic libraries - what does ClimateQUAL research tell us?

摘要

While we are just starting, we believe that this line of investigation is leading to a new understanding that there exist in academic libraries normative subcultures that may be defined by the ClimateQUAL scales. I have only been able to provide a brief snapshot of the work we are doing to marshal the use of the ClimateQUAL data to investigate underlying organisational subcultures. But we are encouraged that it has both explanatory power and, perhaps most importantly, it may be used to achieve a key goal that underlies the use of the protocol - improvement of the health of the organisation, which will have a positive impact on the service that it provides.