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Meier, John J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
To determine how academic library leaders make decisions about their organization's future and how they effect changes, the author interviewed 44 university librarians and deans from institutions belonging to the Association of American Universities (AAU). The author analyzed the interviews using content analysis to identify the most frequent…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Trend Analysis, Library Administration, Librarian Attitudes
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Leimkuhler, Ferdinand F. – Library Trends, 1973
At a time when libraries are adopting systems analysis as an integral part of their management structure, systems analysts are voicing grave concern about their ability to deliver the kinds of systems libraries need. (11 references) (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Planning, Models
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Giesecke, Joan – Journal of Library Administration, 1994
Discusses a framework for identifying organizational processes or models within the context of the organization's decision-making processes. Five organizational models appropriate to academic libraries are presented: rational, political bargaining, garbage can, bureaucratic, and participatory. Guidelines for managers include how to distinguish…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Library Administration, Management Systems
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Giesecke, Joan – College and Research Libraries, 1993
Provides a theoretical overview of decision-making models which are applicable to libraries; presents a framework for comparing the rational, political bargaining, and garbage can models; describes a case study that applied the models to a decision regarding an academic library governance system; and discusses strategies for library managers for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; King, Donald W. – 1983
This paper describes a decision making framework for library networking which can be used by individual libraries, groups of cooperating libraries, or centralized services to evaluate current operations and define alternative approaches to automation and networking. It is noted that networking has not yet achieved its full potential because of a…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Networks
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Brown, Nancy – Canadian Library Journal, 1979
Discusses participatory management systems for academic libraries. A model examining degree of control over the decision-making process, the issues subject to control, and the hierarchical level at which control is exercised provides a standardized framework for study and understanding of participation. (CWM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Librarians
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Johnson, Peggy – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1990
Describes various organizational structures and models, presents matrix management as an alternative to traditional hierarchical structures, and suggests matrix management as an appropriate organizational alternative for academic libraries. Benefits that are discussed include increased flexibility, a higher level of professional independence, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Higher Education, Library Administration
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Mackenzie, A. Graham – Library Trends, 1973
Systems analysis, in this context, is not the process which is the necessary prelude to library automation; it is something more basic. It involves seeking out the fundamentals of a situation and applying scientific methods to their study, to find an optimal solution to the problems facing the manager. (20 references) (Author/TW)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Library Administration, Man Machine Systems
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Du Mont, Rosemary Ruhig – Library Trends, 1991
Presents a management model of ethical decision making in librarianship. Highlights include a definition of ethics; ethical concerns in information professions; the concept of social responsibility; ethical dimensions of decision making, including access to information and hiring decisions; ethical considerations for managers; and strategies for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrators, Decision Making, Ethics
Marcum, James W. – Library Administration and Management, 1998
Provides background and context for the issue of outsourcing. Illustrates the practice as it exists in libraries. Offers a model for analyzing outsourcing alternatives and a scenario for testing the model, and suggests alternate approaches for management. (Contains 52 references.) (AEF)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Information Services, Information Technology, Library Administration
Dubey, Yogendra P. – 1989
This paper begins with a discussion of the decision-making process. The application of operations research technologies to managerial decision-making is noted, and the development of management information systems in organizations and some limitations of these systems are discussed. An overview of the Human Information Processing System (HIPS)…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Expert Systems, Futures (of Society), Library Administration
Rouse, Sandra H.; Rouse, William B. – 1977
The inputs to mathematical models of library operations require periodic updating. The data collection effort necessary for such updating can be quite expensive; however, if the data collected can serve multiple purposes, the costs can perhaps be justified. A management information system (MIS) offers a vehicle for multiple uses of data, and thus…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Information Processing, Interlibrary Loans
Karunaratne, N. D.; And Others – 1976
This is a study on the operating efficiency of the public library system in Australia. Cost functions have been fitted to library data and the results are interpreted with a view to generating insights into the functioning of the existing library system. An exploratory cost benefit analysis has also been attempted. Activities of libraries have…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Efficiency, Library Administration
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Drabenstott, Jon – Library Hi Tech, 1985
A library automation plan must not only produce an optimum system, but prepare staff, institution, and clientele for far-reaching change. This change can be accommodated by a functional model consisting of three phases: organization and overview; project expansion; project consolidation and preparation of system plan. Twenty-eight references are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning
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Hazen, Dan C. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1982
Delineates the types of decisions involved in the preservation of library collections and suggests decision-making structures and criteria for each type of decision. The information gaps which limit the ability to make intelligent preservation decisions are also discussed. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Criteria, Decision Making, Library Acquisition
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