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Griffin, Mary Ann – 1986
Developments in technology, in organizational structure, and in higher education are placing increasing demands on library managers. The library director, once primarily concerned with finances, and the management of collection, staff, and facilities, must increasingly be concerned with the articulation of values. The formulation and promulgation…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Directors
Weingand, Darlene E. – 2001
Since the publication of its first edition in 1965, this book has been a standard resource for setting up and managing cutting-edge small public library facilities. Completely revised and updated, this fourth edition continues that tradition with many more figures (28 in this edition), case studies and sample policies, and new content on grant…
Descriptors: Administration, Library Administration, Library Funding, Library Networks
Download full textAllen, Bryce – 1990
Arguing that technological change often affects the organizational structure of library workplaces, this paper presents two alternative approaches to the implementation of change in organizational structures, provides several examples of each approach, and suggests related reading materials. It is noted that the configurational approach…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Higher Education, Job Performance
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1990
Seven papers making up Track III of the 1989 conference of the Professional Association for the Management of Information Technology in Higher Education (known as CAUSE, an acronym of the association's former name) are presented in this document. The focus of Track III is on organization and personnel issues, and the papers include: "How to…
Descriptors: Administration, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Uses in Education, Equipment
Peer reviewedMartell, Charles – College and Research Libraries, 1987
Examines the nature of authority as embedded in organizational and professional structures within an academic library context and its relationship to the fit between the organization and the environment. Self regulation and formal participation are introduced as alternatives to traditional strategies for decision making. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Environment, Higher Education
Seager, Andrew J.; And Others – 1993
This study reports on the characteristics of selected public libraries into which adult literacy programs have become relatively integrated. The study addresses the following issues (1) the form of leadership in those libraries in which literacy programming has become integrated; (2) the organizational and staff support that promotes library…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
