Full Description
This essential, single-volume textbook supplies a comprehensive introduction to library management that addresses all the functions of management, specifically within the ever-evolving modern library environment.
Strategic planning. Facilities management. Leadership, ethics, communication, and motivation. Human resources and staffing. Change, library development, and innovation. Marketing. Measurement and evaluation. Fiscal responsibility and control. These are just some of the wide range of responsibilities and necessary skills of contemporary library managers—not all of which are typically covered in detail in LIS educational programs.
Now updated and expanded for its ninth edition, Libraries Unlimited's Library and Information Center Management is the core management text for library information science programs. This latest text adds new information on grant writing as well as more about budgets, marketing, financial management, assessment, and evidence-based management. The authors include various real-world examples from international settings to help readers understand and conceptualize the place of the library and information center in our global world. Each chapter ends with two helpful sections that present numerous examples and opportunities to apply newly gained information: "Practice Your Skills" and "Discussion Questions."
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section 1—Introduction
1 Managing in Today's Libraries
2 The Evolution of Management Thought
3 Change: The Innovative Process
Section 2—Planning
4 Strategic Planning, Decision Making, and Policy
5 Planning and Maintaining Library Facilities
6 Marketing Information Services
Section 3—Organizing
7 Organizations and Organizational Culture
8 The Fundamentals of Organization: Specialization and Coordination
9 Designing Adaptive Organizational Structures
Section 4—Human Resources
10 Staffing the Library
11 The Human Resources Function in the Library
12 Other Issues in Human Resource Management
Section 5—Leading
13 Motivation in the Workplace
14 Organizational Leadership
15 Professional Ethics
16 Organizational Communication
17 Empowering Employees through the Use of Teams
Section 6—Coordinating
18 Evaluating Organizational Performance
19 Library Finance and Budgets
20 Library Fund-Raising (Development) and Grant Writing
Section 7—Managing in the 21st Century
21 Managers: The Next Generation
Index
