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Cylke, Frank Kurt, Ed.; And Others – 1983
Standards are briefly outlined for four general areas. Administrative areas addressed are policies and procedures, legal basis, planning reports--statistical and narrative, budget, funding, personnel (personnel policies and procedures, positions and responsibilities, staff size, training and performance, job description, affirmative action,…
Descriptors: Blindness, Glossaries, Library Administration, Library Materials
Buckingham, Betty Jo – 1984
This booklet presents guidelines for planning the school library media center budget based on short and long range plans for maintaining and developing collections and services. It is noted that such planning should consider the goals and objectives of the district, the school, and particular programs, and that democratic budgeting should involve…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Estimates, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1988
The materials in this manual are intended to provide the introductory information needed by new system advisory council members and staff of the Texas State Library on the history, role, governance, funding, services, and administration of library systems. Included in the handbook are discussions of: (1) the role of systems in public library…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Documentation, Financial Support, Governance
Hendricks, J. Thom, Ed. – 1988
Since no local library can meet the information needs of the community on its own, librarians and local policymakers must look to other existing agencies and channels for support. In every locale are agencies, organizations, and governmental and social service units that daily gather, compile, and disseminate information as one of their missions.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Coordination, Guidelines, Library Administration
Baker, Sharon L. – 1987
This study was designed to determine: (1) whether the 5-year planning cycle described in the 1980 manual "A Planning Process for Public Libraries" is being used in North Carolina's public libraries; (2) whether output measures described in a second publication released in 1982 are being collected in the state's public libraries; (3) the…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Evaluation Criteria, Library Administration, Library Directors
Download full textCalifornia State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1991
This report examines the newly proposed systemwide library plan of the California State University (CSU), which will govern the planning and development of library space on CSU campuses for the next 10 years. The commission's report evaluates the state university's updated library space standards and discusses policy issues that relate to on-site…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology, Library Administration
1983
This report of the findings of a year-long policy analysis of New York City's three public branch library systems, carried out by the Nova Institute in cooperation with a study committee composed of city and library officials, opens with a brief historic account of the development of the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, and…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Budgeting, City Government, Comparative Analysis
