Library and information center management / Robert D. Stueart and Barbara B. Moran.

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.