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Mission Statements--Rhetoric, Reality, or Road Map to Success?
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Keeling, Mary – Knowledge Quest, 2013
Mission statements are expected elements of business plans and corporate communications. Yet, practice in creating them and monitoring their impact varies and skeptics wonder about their usefulness. A survey of business literature provides a context for school library mission statements. Mission statements define the nature, purpose, and role of…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Position Papers, Library Administration, Administrative Policy
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management. Second Edition
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Johnson, Peggy – ALA Editions, 2009
In this fully updated revision, expert instructor and librarian Peggy Johnson addresses the art in controlling and updating your library's collection. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect of collection development, including suggestions for further reading and a narrative case study exploring the issue. Johnson also integrates…
Descriptors: Library Services, Case Studies, Administrative Policy, Library Administration
Private Dollar$ for Public Libraries.
Krull, Jeffrey R. – Library Journal, 1991
Proposes targeting individuals, corporations, and charitable foundations and trusts as a means of supplementing library fund-raising campaigns. The basics of establishing and maintaining a private funds foundation are addressed, including goal setting, personnel required, and nurturing the library's relationship with the community. A sidebar by…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Corporate Support, Financial Needs, Fund Raising
Exhibits in ARL Libraries. SPEC Kit 120.
Wyly, Mary – 1986
While there is general agreement regarding the educational and cultural advantages of exhibits, research and academic libraries often adapt the operating guidelines and procedures of exhibit planning and installation from museums and other non-library institutions. To discover procedures and policies developed specifically for research libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Exhibits, Higher Education
The New York State Public Library Service Minimum Standards. Recommended by the Committee on Minimum Public Library Standards for New York State.
New York State Library, Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1988
In 1987, the Regent's Advisory Council on Libraries and the New York State Library Division of Library Development appointed a Committee on Minimum Library Standards for New York State to review and revise existing standards for public libraries, taking into consideration the Board of Regents policy on libraries. This report explains the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Library Administration, Library Collections, Library Education
The Management Review and Analysis Program Report to the Director of Libraries by The MRAP Study Team.
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Univ. Library Management Studies. – 1974
The University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) libraries participated in a management review and analysis program (MRAP) with the assistance of the Office of University Library Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries. Three study teams reported on the library system in its institutional setting; current trends in higher…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Budgets, College Libraries