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Academic libraries have been speeding up and extending their services on facultiesand students through the development of knowledge management. This has made librarymoving an unavoidable mammoth task and requiring a systematic approach. The keysuccess factor (KSF) for library moving should be emphasized, but few academic studiesin the literature address this issue. This research puzzles out some critical activities andkey criteria on successful library moving, and conducts questionnaire on 162 universityand college libraries in Taiwan. Librarian heads are asked to fill in their backgroundinformation and moving experience on the questionnaire. Their comments on movingactivities and successful moving, where having experienced or not experienced such aproject, are made by a five-point Likert's scale. Collected data will be processed by SPSSin order to identify KSFs. This study indicates that the key criteria for successful librarymoving, in order, are schedule control, book shelving control, manpower control, costcontrol, and emergency control. The critical moving activities are responsibility matrixmaking, inventory checking/future collecting, outsourcing, scheduling in the planningphase, and bookshelf preparing in the preparing phase. Furthermore, a librarian'sprofessional working years and whether the university or college is supported by thegovernment or by a board of trustees will indeed influence the importance ranking onmoving activities.
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