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Improving Library Performance: Quantitative Approaches to Library Planning.

Webster, Duane E. – 1977

The use of analytical models and quantitative methods for both short- and long-range problem solving offer library managers an excellent opportunity to improve and rationalize decision-making for strategic and organizational planning. The first step is to identify the problems confronting the library and understand its current capabilities.…

Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning

Comprehensive Organization/Operational Planning: A Research Project for Management Planning in Libraries.

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Joint Univ. Libraries, Nashville, TN. Office of Research and Development. – 1972

The Joint University Libraries (JUL) of Nashville, Tennessee have found that as they become increasingly complex they must make optimum use of their resources. In 1972, JUL initiated a planning effort, called Comprehensive Organizational/Operational Planning (CO/OP), designed to provide information for intelligent management decisions. Policy…

Descriptors: College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Library Planning