The Economics of Managing Library Service
Author | : Bruce P. Schauer |
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Total Pages | : 291 |
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ISBN | : 9780783759685 |
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Author | : Bruce P. Schauer |
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Total Pages | : 291 |
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ISBN | : 9780783759685 |
Author | : Anne Woodsworth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2018-10-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429827776 |
First published in 1993, the purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important factors that must be considered in making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to information – in short, the best way to use the humans, the machines, and the intangible resources known as information, particularly at the organizational level. In recent years executives have begun to outsource computing and telecommunications functions, primarily to control costs. Traditional libraries and information centres have been disbanded in favour of service contracts or outright leasing of staff. Both the public and private sectors are examining their information service operations from the point of view of cost effectiveness. Decisions about owning versus leasing of information are being made daily. Decision-makers are finding that they must deal differently with funding and budgeting of information systems and libraries from their earlier practice. New paradigms for these service functions already exist. Not only have corporations and governments begun to contract out entire information service operations, but libraries themselves have begun to consider the costs, effectiveness, and implications of outsourcing some of their operations and services. This book provides a framework for decision-makers to view and review information services within their organizations. Entire units, components of libraries and information centres are defined and untangled so that the widest variety of organizations can analyse their own environments. Each chapter is accompanied by comments from a broad range of experts in the information field.
Author | : Stephen A. Roberts |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-02-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110963175 |
Author | : Stephen Andrew Roberts |
Publisher | : London : Aslib |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Wendy Evans |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-07-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1780633181 |
This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the ‘how to’ of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial management. The emphasis is on case studies and practical examples drawn from a wide variety of contexts. A Handbook of Digital Library Economics is a practical manual for those involved – or expecting to be involved – in the development and management of digital libraries. Provides practical approach to the subject Focuses on the challenges associated with the economic and financial aspects of digital developments Will be valuable to practitioners, and tutors and students in a wide variety of situations
Author | : Gisela M. von Dran |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000757781 |
This book, first published in 1993, features the perspectives of library practitioners as well as other higher education professionals on using innovative management techniques. The book includes practical discussions of Total Quality Management, team management, the impact of gender differences, managing an older work force, and educational needs. Through this valuable book, library administrators will find the best methods for adapting management strategies to the major political upheaval, economic reprioritizing, and organizational restructuring that has been characteristic of this decade. They will benefit from the case studies and practical overview from professionals who have already experienced change in their own libraries. Some of the important topics covered by the contributors include: fostering the democratization of the workplace and the development of the staff through empowerment; proactive, assertive, and collaborative roles of libraries in the scholarly communication process; library management education that prepares professionals both to anticipate change and to bring about change in their institutions in response to societal needs and shifts; managing the academic library through teamwork; the possible impacts and implications of female leadership on the library profession; organizational change in research libraries; older workers in technical services; and using the budget as a planning tool.
Author | : John Frederick Harvey |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780810816480 |
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Author | : Michael R. W. Bommer |
Publisher | : White Plains, N.Y. : Knowledge Industry Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Carol Smallwood |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2013-05-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0810890534 |
As budgets for libraries continue to shrink, the key challenge facing the 21st century librarian is finding how to do more with less. Learning how to increase productivity within the constraints of a difficult economy, librarians can benefit from the insights of fellow professionals and others who have succeeded in making the most of what they have. Time and Project Management Strategies for Librarians features more than thirty essays that provide valuable tips for the professional who must cope with increasing demands upon their resources. Librarians will get tips on how to: identify the most important tasks for the library eliminate non-essential functions and processes increase reliance on volunteers, interns, and students optimize daily routines and schedule staff effectively increase productivity through the use of social media and email increase project and time management skills and personal productivity through setting and meeting goals With productivity tips for all librarians—from the newly hired to the most seasoned veteran—this volume will help libraries provide better service to their users and also show librarians how to give this service without losing their personal lives and their sanity.
Author | : Joseph Branin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135838798 |
Managing Change in Academic Libraries helps academic librarians plan, implement, and manage changes to the fundamental structure of their organizations. It shows readers that in academic libraries the two driving forces behind most change are economics and technology. Declines in funding for education and in the purchasing power of libraries have made it impossible to maintain the status quo, let alone realize growth, in traditional information services and collection development. Add to this downward trend in library economics, the explosion of new information technology and its potential for radically altering communications and knowledge management, and one has the ingredients for some amazing changes in libraries. To help manage these many changes, chapters in Managing Change in Academic Libraries approach change with a mixture of radical and rational ideas. Readers learn academic librarians’views on dealing with change as they read about: an environmental scan which identifies both internal and external forces that are increasing the amount and scope of change in academic libraries technological change and its impact in academic libraries the academic library director’s role as an agent of change how two large library systems managed to change in some very fundamental ways when faced with serious economic and political challenges difficult personnel issues faced by academic libraries as they move into new organizational structures and adopt new management styles the future of traditional reference services in light of rapid developments in computing and networking how to change bibliographic control to better serve the changing expectations and needs of user communities conducting a restructuring study and recommendations for organizational change in a large research library system Each chapter shows academic librarians how they can respond imaginatively and nimbly to economic, political, and technological change that envelopes their professional work life. Academic librarians will refer to Managing Change in Academic Libraries again and again as a survival tool as they meet with challenging and unpredictable changes.