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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
Booz Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1973
This case study of the libraries at Columbia University analyzes the libraries against the backdrop of contemporary trends in higher education. New management styles and approaches to the utilization of professional personnel are recommended. The report presents detailed suggestions for implementing the change recommendations. (KB)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Case Studies, College Libraries
Download full textBailey, Martha J. – 1974
Although the literature of library administration draws extensively on that of business management, it is difficult to compare library supervision to business or industrial supervision. Library supervisors often do not have managerial training and may consider their management role as secondary. The educational level of the staff they supervise…
Descriptors: Administration, Job Analysis, Librarians, Libraries
Smith, Jessie C. – 1975
A six-month internship at the Stanford University Library allowed the author to observe the processes of setting objectives, planning services and programs, coordinating activities, and motivating personnel to work for common goals both within and outside the library, and to draw conclusions from this experience relevant to her own library. This…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, College Libraries
Gardner, Jeffrey J.; Webster, Duane E. – 1974
Management principles and guidelines for the development of goals and objectives in the academic or research library are formulated. The intent of the goal statements is to draw on the management-by-objectives (MBO) techniques to develop a series of principles and guidelines which libraries can consider, evaluate, and adapt for local use. Sample…
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Guidelines, Library Administration
Riggs, Donald E. – 1975
The literatures of library science and management were searched for material concerning the history of centralized processing of library materials and the Planning-Programing-Budgeting System (PPBS). Literature on the history, major components, and advantages of PPBS was reviewed and features of PPBS such as comparison of alternatives, zero-base…
Descriptors: Administration, Centralization, College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness
