Library and information center management /

Stueart, Robert D.

Library and information center management / Robert D. Stueart and Barbara B. Moran. - 7th ed. - Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007. - xxviii, 492 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. - Library and information science text series. . - Library and information science text series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Managing in today's libraries and information centers -- The evolution of management thought -- Change : the innovative process -- Planning information services and systems -- Strategic planning : thinking and doing -- Marketing information services -- Organizations and organizational culture -- Structuring the organization : specialization and coordination -- The structure of organizations : today and in the future -- Staffing the library -- The human resources functions in the library -- Other issues in human resource management -- Motivation -- Leadership -- Ethics -- Communication -- Participative management and the use of teams in libraries -- Measuring, evaluating, and coordinating organizational performance -- Fiscal responsibility and control -- Managers : the next generation.

This text presents the principles of library and information centre management in a conceptual framework. It examines the dynamics of organizational missions, goals, policies and programmes, and the external forces encouraging change.

9781591584087 (alk. paper) 1591584086 (alk. paper) 9781591584063 (pbk. : alk. paper) 159158406X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Library administration--United States.
Information services--Management.--United States

Z678 / .S799 2007