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Allison, Anne Marie – 1979
Items studied in a library survey of U.S. institutions of higher education included shifts in decision-making bodies, unionization, and tenure. From the 1032 questionnaires returned, these findings resulted: (1) 175 of 1025 have unionized library staff--135 of them since 1971; (2) 496 of 1018 librarians responding said they were organized as a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Change, Administrative Policy, Decision Making
Download full textLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC. – 1977
The Task Force on Goals, Organization, and Planning, established in January 1976 to review the operations of the Library of Congress (LC), recommends changes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the institution. Suggestions are made without regard to budgetary restraints. Major recommendations included in Part I concern the areas of: (1)…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Library Administration, Library Planning
Taler, Izabella – 1984
The survey described in this report was designed to test whether or not library directors are able to recognize the existence of the problem of burnout (the emotional and physical exhaustion due to continued stress on the job) and how, if at all, top management of the institutions of which the library is a part view and deal with the issue. Survey…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Jakubs, Deborah – 1989
The introduction to this Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit explains the Conspectus method, which was developed in 1980 by the Research Libraries Group (RLG) as a means of systematically and qualitatively evaluating large library collections. The discussion considers advantages and disadvantages of this tool, which evaluates past…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
