Papers selected from those submitted to the Special Libraries Association, Leadership and Management Division's 2003 International Paper Competition.

"Co-published simultaneously as Science & technology libraries, volume 23, numbers 2/3."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transforming a traditional library into hybrid library : use of leadership and managerial skills at the Central Library, IIT Delhi / Jagdish Arora -- The role of leadership and innovative management in building rural knowledge centers to reach the "unreached" / Subbiah Arunachalam -- The application of leadership and management principles in libraries / Muhammad Yaqub Chaudhary, Muhammad Umar Farooq -- The application of leadership and management principles and strategies to a library and information service / P.R. Goswami -- Application of leadership and management principles for libraries : some reflections from India / V.K.J. Jeevan -- Traditional values still relevant in library usage and readership enhancement : challenges before a librarian / K.A. Raju -- How can the college libraries of western China conform to digital trends? / Wang Fang -- Development of a Web site for a commercial bank corporate library in Sri Lanka / Shivanthi Weerasinghe -- Indonesian libraries in agriculture and tropical biology : crises, reforms, and the ongoing need for international support / Widharto -- Library services, application of management principles / Pradyna Yogesh, Alan Dalton -- The application of leadership and management principles and strategies in a bureaucratic environment : the case of Federal Ministry of Industry Headquarters Library, Nigeria / Imo J. Akpan -- The role of mobile patient library services in providing palliative care to people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda / Kasusse Michael -- Leveraging natural skills to overcome traditional ways in a third world library / Foli Kuevidjen -- Library and information services (LIS) strategic planning in a developing country : a case study / Paiki Muswazi -- The application of leadership and management principles and strategies in an information resource center in Burkina Faso / Josephine Ouedraogo -- The application of leadership and management principles and strategies to an information service, the British Council Management Information Centre, Mombasa / Mary N. Stevens -- Research translation in South Africa / Mariam Stuurman -- Working locally, thinking globally in the beginning of library management and leadership / Toshka Borisova -- Librarianship in Azerbaijan : what can a leader do? / Muzhgan Nazarova -- Cautious but decisive : ten years of information services implementation at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala / Grete Pasch.