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This updated edition of the renowned library management textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the techniques needed to effectively manage a contemporary library or information center.

Library and Information Center Management: Eighth Edition continues to be an essential textbook that provides a complete introduction to library management. It supplies a comprehensive, one-volume overview of all the functions of management specifically applied to the modern library environment.

This latest revised and updated edition begins with introductory chapters that discuss the roles of library managers in the past and in the present, explain why library staff must rethink their purpose, and document the inadequacy of management techniques that once seemed appropriate. In addition to discussing key planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling strategies, the book also provides chapters on marketing, facilities management, and fundraising. The final chapter provides young managers with invaluable guidance and addresses the challenges of succeeding in management without the benefit of decades of experience.

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• Illustrations(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xvii)
• Section 1 Introduction
• 1 Managing in Today's Libraries and Information Centers(p. 3)
• 2 The Evolution of Management Thought(p. 19)
• 3 Change-The Innovative Process(p. 43)
• Section 2 Planning
• 4 Strategic Planning-Decision Making and Policy(p. 65)
• 5 Planning and Maintaining Library Facilities(p. 97)
• 6 Marketing Information Services(p. 107)
• Section 3 Organizing
• 7 Organizations and Organizational Culture(p. 119)
• 8 Structuring the Organization-Specialization and Coordination(p. 141)
• 9 The Structuring of Organizations(p. 165)
• Section 4 Human Resources
• 10 Staffing the Library(p. 189)
• 11 The Human Resources Functions in the Library(p. 213)
• 12 Other Issues in Human Resources Management(p. 243)
• Section 5 Leading
• 13 Motivation(p. 269)
• 14 Leadership(p. 291)
• 15 Ethics(p. 315)
• 16 Communication(p. 335)
• 17 Participative Leadership and the Use of Teams in Libraries(p. 357)
• Section 6 Coordinating
• 18 Measuring, Evaluating, and Coordinating Organizational Performance(p. 381)
• 19 Fiscal Responsibility and Control(p. 409)
• 20 Library Development and Fund-raising(p. 431)
• Section 7 Managing in the 21st Century
• 21 Managers: The Next Generation(p. 441)
• Index(p. 455)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Barbara B. Moran , PhD, is 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.



Robert D. Stueart , PhD, is professor and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, MA.



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