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Download full textHanson, Charles D. – 1988
This paper examines the role of communication in library leadership. The discussion is organized into 14 sections: (1) multidimensional approaches to effective leadership communication and varying communication style to the situation; (2) the importance of conciseness; (3) streamlining library communication; (4) the vision being communicated by…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Humor, Leadership Qualities
Peer reviewedDewey, Barbara J. – Journal of Library Administration, 1986
Discusses the increasing managerial importance of job evaluation to libraries, compares typical job evaluation systems in academic libraries with innovative ones in selected academic settings and notes that job evaluation development has resulted in libraries focusing on specific personnel issues and developing new directions in the job evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparable Worth, Higher Education, Librarians
Childers, Thomas A.; Van House, Nancy A. – 1993
This workbook explains how to define what various constituents connected with a public library want it to do and what doing these things well means in qualitative terms. The book aims to define effectiveness for the public library and to provide guidelines for assessing the library's effectiveness and communicating this to stakeholders. The eight…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Efficiency, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Siggins, Jack, Comp. – Spec Kit, 1992
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit reports results of a survey of 64 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions conducted in the fall of 1990 to gather information on the performance appraisal of collection development librarians. Data are reported on the frequency of the performance review cycle, reporting…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Librarians
Coffey, James R. – Library Administration & Management, 1992
Describes the development of a model for competency at Rutgers University-Camden's library that can be used in the hiring process as a tool to evaluate job candidates for technical services positions. Interview experiences using the model, both with current employees and with prospective candidates, are discussed. (five references) (LRW)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Competence, Employee Attitudes, Employment Interviews
Rounds, Laura, Ed.; Matthews, Michael, Ed. – 1995
This document contains conference papers, other speeches, and supplementary material from the first International Conference on Total Quality Management (TQM) and Academic Libraries, held in 1994. The conference was comprised of four sessions, and the introductory remarks of each are included, along with transcriptions of each session's…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Benchmarking, Case Studies
