Library and Information Center Management / Edition 9

by Barbara B. Moran, Claudia J. Morner

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440854477
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/16/2017
Series:	Library and Information Science Text Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	568
Sales rank:	459,370
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.95(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Barbara B. Moran, PhD, was Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as dean from 1990 to 1998.

Claudia J. Morner, PhD, was dean/professor emerita at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

Table of Contents

Illustrations ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Section 1 Introduction

1 Managing in Today's Libraries 5

2 The Evolution of Management Thought 25

3 Change: The Innovative Process 57

Section 2 Planning

4 Strategic Planning, Decision Making, and Policy 79

5 Planning and Maintaining Library Facilities 111

6 Marketing Information Services 125

Section 3 Organizing

7 Organizations and Organizational Culture 141

8 The Fundamentals of Organization: Specialization and Coordination 165

9 Designing Adaptive Organizational Structures 193

Section 4 Human Resources

10 Staffing the Library 221

11 The Human Resources Function in the Library 247

12 Other Issues in Human Resource Management 279

Section 5 Leading

13 Motivation in the Workplace 305

14 Organizational Leadership 333

15 Professional Ethics 361

16 Organizational Communication 385

17 Empowering Employees through the Use of Teams 413

Section 6 Coordinating

18 Evaluating Organizational Performance 441

19 Library Finance and Budgets 467

20 Library Fund-Raising (Development) and Grant Writing 491

Section 7 Managing In The 21st Century

21 Managers: The Next Generation 511

Index 529

Editorial Reviews

It is essential to teach our future leaders not only to expect this rate of change, but also to master it whenever possible. Library and Information Center Management, now in its ninth edition, attempts to take on that teaching role. . . . Every chapter has been revised using feedback from users of previous editions.” —Booklist Online

“For those teaching or learning about leading and managing libraries, this book would be a valuable resource. . . . . [It] offers a wealth of information about being successful in leading and managing all types of libraries. . . . A valuable resource for a class or as a professional reference on leading and managing libraries. Recommended.” —School Library Connection

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