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Key Words for New Managers.
Kim, Taeock; Isaac, Frederick – 1988
This paper briefly describes the effects of changes instituted by new library administrators and discusses the roles of both upper and middle level library managers in the process of adapting to change. Suggestions based on the experience of the authors as new middle level managers at a time when extensive changes were occurring in a university…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Change, Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas)
The Managerial Roles of Academic Library Directors: The Mintzberg Model.
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Moskowitz, Michael Ann – College and Research Libraries, 1986
A study based on a model developed by Henry Mintzberg examined the internal and external managerial roles of 126 New England college and university library directors. Survey results indicate that the 97 responding directors were primarily involved with internal managerial roles and work contacts. (CDD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Role, Higher Education, Library Administration
They Shoot Supervisors, Don't They?
Jaffe, Martin Elliot; Ives, Sheila – Library Journal, 1987
Describes both a dichotomy between library managers and library staff involved in direct service and a supervisory development instrument intended for use by employees to rate supervisors. This instrument, which is included, is designed to encourage an organizational climate characterized by mutual trust and shared values among supervisors and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Evaluation Methods, Librarians, Library Administration
Burnout: A Survey of Library Directors' Views.
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Taler, Izabella – 1984
The survey described in this report was designed to test whether or not library directors are able to recognize the existence of the problem of burnout (the emotional and physical exhaustion due to continued stress on the job) and how, if at all, top management of the institutions of which the library is a part view and deal with the issue. Survey…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
What Professional Librarians Expect from Administrators: One Librarian's View; Another Librarian's View; and An Administrator's Response.
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Price, Cheryl A.; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1987
The first author presents 13 qualities or job related factors that librarians should expect to find in a position and defines the administrator's responsibilities in providing these factors. Responses are then presented from the librarian's and administrator's points of view. (CLB)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship
Total Quality Management in Information Services. Information Services Management Series.
St. Clair, Guy – 1997
Information services managers have a responsibility to provide the best information delivery possible. The basic principles of total quality management can be used by information professionals to help justify library funding through the creation of an environment where customer-patron satisfaction is paramount. This book reveals how to apply the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Benchmarking, Improvement Programs, Information Services
The Library Trustee: A Practical Guidebook. Fifth Edition.
Young, Virginia G., Ed. – 1995
This book defines the role and obligations of the library trustee in a wide range of situations and also discusses keys to successful communication between the trustee and library director, staff, and patron. Chapters are: (1) "The Trustee in Today's World" (F. William Summers); (2) "Duties and Responsibilities of Trustees"…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship