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Cheatham, David – Information Technology and Libraries, 1985
Discussion of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) that supports operational and managerial planning of automation projects covers challenges of library automation, evolution and scope of SDLC, lack of dissemination of SDLC literature within library and information science community, and corrective measures to meet library automation demands.…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning
Westerman, Mel – 1985
The greater organizational complexity of libraries and information centers in recent years has given rise to more complex problems for managers. To facilitate solutions, operations research (OR) techniques have been developed that consider the quantitative dimensions of problems along with their political and organizational aspects. Eight standard…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Information Centers, Library Administration, Management Systems
Bishoff, Lizbeth J. – American Libraries, 1987
This response to suggestions that the technical services librarian may be replaced by a combination of paraprofessional staff and automated processes discusses the catalog librarian's role in staff training, systems analysis, integrated systems design, technical services management, and original cataloging. (CLB)
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Technical Processes, Library Technicians, Needs Assessment
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Cortez, Edwin M.; Bunge, Charles A. – Journal of Library Administration, 1987
Discusses the relationship between effective organizational communication and specific library contexts and reviews the historical development of communication audits as a means of studying communication effectiveness. The generic structure of such audits is described and two models are presented in detail, including techniques for gathering and…
Descriptors: Communication Audits, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Decision Support Systems
Loughborough Univ. of Technology (England). Dept. of Library and Information Studies. – 1981
These four papers presented at the Polytechnic of Central London School of Management focus on the management of technical innovation in libraries as it affects decision making, library organization, non-systems staff, and interlibrary cooperation. Procedures for implementing automation in a library are outlined: a system analysis and costing of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Innovation, Library Administration, Library Automation