Considers present and future library management--planning, financing, accountability, problem solving. (LS)

Excerpts from a new book by Kenneth R. Shaffer entitled Decision Making; A Seminar in Public Library Management." (Author)

Describes the complications of library administration including participatory management, labor unions, government regulation, library statistics, and performance budgeting. (PF)

It is hard to look at American libraries without realizing the need for more management skills. Appallingly bad management practices are common. (19 references) (Author)

This second installment in a series on volunteers in libraries looks at the issues from the point of view of the librarian concerned with modern administrative procedures. Some of the groundwork needed for any successful volunteer program is given. (10 references) (Author/NH)

An explanation is provided of how planning-programming budgeting can be used to improve the management of libraries. (7 references) (Author)

A selection of 61 recommended business books published during the past year is given. (Author)

Happenings at the 1973 Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association are reported. (NH)

Deplores the concept of the no-growth library and proposes the development of an effective national interlibrary lending network. Use studies are viewed as unprofitable as growth policy determinants, and interlibrary loan networks are seen as necessary to prevent libraries from becoming an endangered species. (RAA)

Explains concept of organizational culture (includes systems of values and attitudes shared by organization's members, ways they have developed for handling problems, forms of acceptable solutions), and discusses OCLC, AT&T, and the University of California at Berkeley as examples of managing cultures and organizational change. Twenty-six…

An argument is presented in favor of finding new methods of measuring-evaluating-library performance. (3 references) (SM)

Explores several pitfalls that can defeat technical and management consulting endeavors in organizations, highlighting directions given to a consultant concerning a problem, the "solution machine," the relationship between client and advisor, feedback and flexibility, unmade commitments, and the narrow view of a problem. Fourteen references are…

Argues that faculty status of librarians is not sufficient but must be coupled with a more democratic collegial form of library governance. (JG)

This article summarizes the 1986 Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) held in Chicago, Illinois, January 18-23. Discussion covers debate over Lacy Report, censorship, ALA's financial situation, divestiture and the ALA endowment, debate among ALA candidates, federal matters, continuing education, service to members, and…

Discussion of the management of not-for-profit corporations which provide computerized library networks highlights marketing, nonprofit constraints, multiple goals, consumer demands, professional commitment, external influences, motivation and control, dependence on charisma, management and altruism, hybrid organizations, and rational management.…