Library and Information Center Management

✍ Scribed by Moran, Barbara B., Morner, Claudia J.

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Series: Library and Information Science Text Series
• Edition: 9
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This essential, single-volume textbook supplies a comprehensive introduction to library management that addresses all the functions of management, specifically within the ever-evolving modern library environment.

Strategic planning. Facilities management. Leadership, ethics, communication, and motivation. Human resources and staffing. Change, library development, and innovation. Marketing. Measurement and evaluation. Fiscal responsibility and control. These are just some of the wide range of responsibilities and necessary skills of contemporary library managers—not all of which are typically covered in detail in LIS educational programs.

Now updated and expanded for its ninth edition, Libraries Unlimited’s Library and Information Center Management is the core management text for library information science programs. This latest text adds new information on grant writing as well as more about budgets, marketing, financial management, assessment, and evidence-based management. The authors include various real-world examples from international settings to help readers understand and conceptualize the place of the library and information center in our global world. Each chapter ends with two helpful sections that present numerous examples and opportunities to apply newly gained information: “Practice Your Skills” and “Discussion Questions.”

✦ Table of Contents

Section 1. Introduction -- Managing in today's libraries -- The evolution of management thought -- Change : the innovative process -- Section 2. Planning -- Strategic planning, decision making and policy -- Planning and maintaining library facilities -- Marketing information services -- Section 3. Organizing -- Organizations and organizational culture -- The fundamentals of organization : specialization and coordination -- Designing adaptive organizational structures -- Section 4. Human resources -- Staffing the library -- The human resources functions in the library -- Other issues in human resource management -- Section 5. Leading -- Motivation in the workplace -- Organizational leadership -- Professional ethics -- Organizational communication -- Empowering employees through the use of teams -- Section 6. Coordinating -- Evaluating organizational performance -- Library finance and budgets -- Library fundraising (development) and grant writing -- Section 7. Managing in the 21st century -- Managers : the next generation.