Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them
Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them addresses the most common library management issues, examining mistakes that anyone in a library management position could make, coupled with suggestions for how the issue could be better handled or avoided. The result is the recognition and formation of tools to aid developing managers in identifying potential pitfalls.

Jack E. Fritts Jr. addresses a range of management issues, including campus politics, communication, information technology, staff, and planning. There is also a chapter that addresses library management from the perspective of a chief academic officer. All those in library management positions, or who aspire to library management positions, will profit from the discussions of common but potentially severe mistakes in library management presented in this book.
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Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them
Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them addresses the most common library management issues, examining mistakes that anyone in a library management position could make, coupled with suggestions for how the issue could be better handled or avoided. The result is the recognition and formation of tools to aid developing managers in identifying potential pitfalls.

Jack E. Fritts Jr. addresses a range of management issues, including campus politics, communication, information technology, staff, and planning. There is also a chapter that addresses library management from the perspective of a chief academic officer. All those in library management positions, or who aspire to library management positions, will profit from the discussions of common but potentially severe mistakes in library management presented in this book.
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Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them

Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them

by Jack E. Fritts Jr. (Editor)
Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them

Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them

by Jack E. Fritts Jr. (Editor)

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Overview

Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them addresses the most common library management issues, examining mistakes that anyone in a library management position could make, coupled with suggestions for how the issue could be better handled or avoided. The result is the recognition and formation of tools to aid developing managers in identifying potential pitfalls.

Jack E. Fritts Jr. addresses a range of management issues, including campus politics, communication, information technology, staff, and planning. There is also a chapter that addresses library management from the perspective of a chief academic officer. All those in library management positions, or who aspire to library management positions, will profit from the discussions of common but potentially severe mistakes in library management presented in this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810867451
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 09/02/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 140
File size: 241 KB

About the Author

Jack E. Fritts Jr. is currently the Director of Library Services at Benedictine University and the author of numerous articles on library management.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Keeping Your Library on the Right (Correct) Side of Campus Politics Thomas E. Abbott 1

2 Communication: A Two-Way Street Anne Marie Casey 11

3 Effective Project Management: The Key to Success with Information Technology Frank Cervone 19

4 Staffing for Success Connie Costantino 31

5 Corporate Culture, Knowledge Management, and Libraries: If We Only Knew What We Know Luann DeGreve 39

6 Knowing the Library User Harvey R. Gover 49

7 Developing Power and Influence as a Library Manager DanielJ. Julius 71

8 Change Management and Risk Taking Michael Lorenzen 83

9 Program Planning and Evaluation Patrick Mahoney 95

10 Moving into Leadership Kathleen Walsh 105

Index 119

About the Editor 127

About the Contributors 129

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