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Everitt, Regina – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2018
Modern academic libraries tend to provide services beyond traditional lending, reference, and enquiry services. Many are converged with other professional or student-focussed services such as IT, student services, academic support, or such learning resources as multimedia or print services -- often co-located in space and management structure. At…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Administration, Interdisciplinary Approach, Professional Identity
Kirchner, Joy; Diaz, José; Henry, Geneva; Fliss, Susan; Culshaw, John; Gendron, Heather; Cawthorne, Jon E. – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2015
In 2013, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a group of seven librarians from the Research Library Leadership Fellows program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) a planning grant to examine the center of excellence (CoE) model for information services. Used in a variety of industries, CoEs are designed to attract the most talented…
Descriptors: Information Services, Library Services, Models, Research Libraries
Pritchard, Sarah M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
"portal: Libraries and the Academy" has as its mission to address library and information services in a campus-wide context, focusing on librarians' engagement with learning services, joint technology initiatives, cross-disciplinary and cross-functional research, faculty partnerships, and scholarly publishing and public policy, but…
Descriptors: Information Services, Information Management, Partnerships in Education, Educational Cooperation
Blowers, Helene – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Broadband and bandwidth allocation is an essential technology planning activity that libraries should address on a continual basis. There are five key factors that will impact your network's performance: 1. infrastructure, 2. network load, 3. workstation performance, 4. prioritization of services, and 5. network management. The author thinks it's…
Descriptors: Information Services, Internet, Technology Planning, Access to Information
Tuai, Cameron K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The integration of librarians and technologists to deliver information services represents a new and potentially costly organizational challenge for many library administrators. To understand better how to control the costs of integration, the research presented here will use structural contingency theory to study the coordination of librarians…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Administrative Organization, Organizational Theories
Sloan, Julie – Australian Library Journal, 2008
Library and Information Services (LIS) providers are vulnerable in the current war for talent. They need to work collaboratively to develop accurate workforce data so they can retain and recruit the right people. In South Australia, the issue has a level of urgency above other States as the demographic is skewed to older workers. Organisations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Services, Older Workers, Library Services

Drucker, Peter F. – College and Research Libraries, 1976
Important factors in managing a public service institution include knowing the publics served, phasing out an old program when introducing a new one, defining the roles of administrators and professionals, integrating individuals and the institution, and making the public aware of the value of the service performed. (PF)
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Information Services, Library Administration
Soete, George J. – 1998
This SPEC Kit and Flyer focus on the extent to which Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries engage in formal or organized customer service programs. Seventy-five out of the 121 member libraries responded to the customer service program survey (61%). The SPEC Flyer discusses results in terms of customer service program characteristics,…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Information Services, Library Administration, Library Services

Lawrence, Carl – Canadian Library Journal, 1977
The author views the organization as a total operating system which mobilizes its resources for the sole reason of satisfying the wants of a market. The organization must consider the environmental forces of technology, and also social, economic, and competitive trends. (Author/JAB)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Information Needs, Information Services, Library Administration
Roberts, Stephen A. – 1998
This book highlights the importance of good financial and cost management in libraries and information centers to make best use of available resources, and illustrates how to maintain user services. The book applies current research and theory of financial management techniques to situations faced in libraries and information services. Eight…
Descriptors: Costs, Information Services, Library Administration, Library Expenditures
Baker, Ronald J. – Library Journal, 1998
The previous head of the Central Library of Riverside City and County Public Library (RCCPL) (California) examines the economic failure of the system and the effects of the move to total outsourcing to a private commercial firm, Library Systems & Services (LSSI). Concludes that RCCPL had problems long before it was outsourced to LSSI. (AEF)
Descriptors: Information Services, Library Administration, Library Development, Library Funding
Sloan, Bernard G. – Library Journal, 1985
This essay on the management of microcomputer use in organizations highlights problem areas associated with the central issue of control: acquisition of hardware and software, compatibility, security, data integrity, training, documentation, and the isolation factor. Establishment of a microcomputer information center for education, promotion,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Information Centers, Information Services, Library Administration
Estabrook, Leigh – Library Journal, 1981
Economic pressures on the information industry and on libraries are significantly affecting the nature of services and the organization of work within libraries. These effects are illustrated by three phenomena: emphasis on productivity in libraries, marketing of online database searches through libraries, and the repackaging of library services…
Descriptors: Business, Economic Factors, Information Services, Information Systems
Atkinson, Ross – Library Quarterly, 2005
Scholarship conducted in an increasingly online environment requires the services of a trusted third party in order to ensure that scholarly communication remains reliably accessible and applicable over the longer term. The library, by virtue of its most fundamental values and attributes, is probably better suited at this time than other…
Descriptors: Library Role, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Information Services
Lakos, Amos – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
This paper is an extension of the author's earlier work on developing management information services and creating a culture of assessment in libraries. The author will focus observations on the use of data in decision-making in libraries, specifically on the role of leadership in making evidence-based decision a reality, and will review new…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Information Technology