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This book helps directors of small college libraries to plan, staff, and organize their facilities and make the right decisions to effectively contribute to their college's mission.

The purpose of this book is to provide the director of a small college library--typically defined as a facility managed by one to seven librarians--with information on every important managerial function specific to their facilities. This content will be much more useful for these library specialists than that of management books covering generic library management or targeted towards large academic settings.

Managing the Small College Library covers the key responsibilities of the small college library director: personnel, planning, budgeting, and serving key constituencies. The author draws upon her in-depth knowledge of bureaucratic, political, and human resources managerial theory to explain how librarians can advance the mission of their library. It also includes an in-depth discussion of tenure and academic status for librarians, and examines the effects of both public and religious affiliation.

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• I Thinking About Managing
• 1 Introduction and Overview(p. 3)
• Introduction(p. 3)
• Who Should Read This Book?(p. 3)
• Perspectives(p. 4)
• Terminology(p. 6)
• Format and Contents(p. 10)
• 2 Perspectives on Organizations(p. 11)
• Bureaucracy(p. 12)
• Politics(p. 15)
• Human Development(p. 16)
• 3 Organizational Structure(p. 21)
• Manager's Dual Roles(p. 22)
• Collegial Organization(p. 28)
• Hierarchical Organization(p. 32)
• Campus Culture(p. 32)
• Library Support Staff(p. 34)
• The Director-Plus Library Structure(p. 35)
• Managerial Theory and Organizational Structure(p. 36)
• The Library on Campus(p. 46)
• Faculty and Other Horizontal Organizations(p. 49)
• Individual Capabilities(p. 53)
• II People and How They Fit Together
• 4 Personnel Recruitment(p. 59)
• Position Review, Approval, and Description(p. 60)
• Legalities and Logistics(p. 69)
• Interviewing(p. 74)
• Internal Candidates(p. 78)
• Making a Decision(p. 82)
• 5 Personnel Evaluation and Development(p. 89)
• Support-Staff Development(p. 91)
• Librarian Development(p. 101)
• Annual Evaluation(p. 117)
• Termination(p. 120)
• Student Workers(p. 128)
• 6 Faculty Status(p. 133)
• Defining Faculty Status(p. 134)
• Faculty and Faculty Status(p. 137)
• Faculty Status and Academic Status(p. 153)
• Other Arguments For and Against Faculty Status(p. 156)
• Internal Status(p. 163)
• Summary(p. 172)
• Managing Librarians as Faculty: Tenure and Review Processes(p. 175)
• Librarian Research(p. 181)
• III Core Responsibilities of Managers
• 7 Planning(p. 189)
• Defining Planning(p. 190)
• Generic Plan Elements(p. 192)
• Specific Plans and Their Elements(p. 197)
• General Point: The Busy Person and Library Planning(p. 214)
• SWOT and Dynamic Planning(p. 230)
• 8 Budgeting(p. 243)
• Thinking About the Budget: Budget Categories(p. 245)
• Income(p. 246)
• Expenses(p. 250)
• Personnel(p. 251)
• Collections(p. 259)
• Services and Equipment(p. 267)
• Maintaining the Big Picture(p. 271)
• Preparing a Budget(p. 273)
• IV Supporting Teaching, Research, and Service
• 9 Managing for Teaching Support(p. 283)
• Culture of Personal Attention(p. 284)
• Library Instruction: Preparing Self-Serving Learners(p. 289)
• Reference Services: Information Assistance on Demand(p. 291)
• Library Facilities and Passive Services(p. 299)
• 10 Managing for Research Support(p. 303)
• Challenges for Conducting Disciplinary Research(p. 304)
• Planning Considerations to Support Research(p. 306)
• Pedagogical Scholarship(p. 312)
• 11 Specialized Collections(p. 317)
• The Special Collection(p. 324)
• 12 Managing for Service Support(p. 325)
• Service to Administrative Staff(p. 325)
• Community Outreach(p. 327)
• Volunteerism(p. 330)
• Conclusion(p. 334)
• Selected Bibliography(p. 335)
• Index(p. 341)

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Booklist Review

Applegate, a longtime librarian and library educator, covers the key responsibilities of the small college library director. She highlights the topics of management, personnel, fiscal planning and budgeting, and supporting the core of the academic institution: teaching, researching, and providing service. Applegate uses her experiences in the bureaucratic and political arenas, as well as human-resources managerial theory, to explain how library leaders can advance the mission of their library. The lengthy personnel section, entitled People and How They Fit Together, is especially insightful and useful to managers at all levels. The detailed index provides many additional access points. This work will prove useful to directors of all kinds of small libraries.--Awe, Susan Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Rachel Applegate is associate professor of library and information science and teaches evaluation of libraries and library management at Indiana University, Indianapolis.