Proceedings of the International Conference on Marching Beyond the Libraries (ICMBL): Leadership, Creativity, and Innovation (ICMBL 2024)

Marching beyond the Libraries: towards the Management of Libraries in the Cyber-Physical Society through Efficient, Creative, and Innovative Leadership

Authors
B. Ramesh Babu1, 2, *
1Professor (Retd), University of Madras, 22/20B Thangavelu Pillai Garden, First Street, Old Washermen Pet, Chennai, 600021, India
2Formerly Visiting Professor, Mahasarakham University, Kham Riang, Thailand
*Corresponding author. Email: beerakarameshbabu@gmail.com
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B. Ramesh Babu
Available Online 15 May 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-712-0_2How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Libraries; Leadership; Innovative Leadership; Creative Leadership; Cyber-Physical Society
Abstract

Libraries need to be developed and improved greatly in the modern era, and this can only be accomplished with the help of good leaders and the cooperation, enthusiasm, and support of the library staff. This paper defines leadership and discusses why it’s important in libraries. The changing dynamics of the society conceived by Alvin Toffler and further extended to the changes that took place after ‘Third Wave’ that covers from Digital Society to Cyber –Physical Society has been portrayed. The concepts of effective, innovative and creative leadership have been discussed in relation to the libraries. The paper argues that a leader rises to the occasion when they accept accountability. Intellectual capital is the foundation of today’s competitive world and the dynamics of society, from the agrarian to the cyber-physical, depend on effective, imaginative, and creative leadership to march beyond the confines of libraries.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Marching Beyond the Libraries (ICMBL): Leadership, Creativity, and Innovation (ICMBL 2024)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
15 May 2025
ISBN
978-94-6463-712-0
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-712-0_2How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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