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Peer reviewedAuster, Ethel – Canadian Library Journal, 1987
Briefly reviews the theoretical principles of decision making and communication for effective management, and describes management practices in Canadian academic libraries facing retrenchment that deviate from this theoretical model. Suggestions for achieving greater congruency between scholarly theory and management practice, thereby facilitating…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
Download full textBroadbent, Marianne; Grosser, Kerry – 1986
This report summarizes a 1985 study during which 85 special library/information center managers from Melbourne, Australia, were interviewed to ascertain their continuing professional development activities, needs, and aspirations. Major areas of investigation included the extent and nature of organizational support for continuing professional…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Inservice Education
Peer reviewedKhan, Marta – Canadian Library Journal, 1987
Discusses techniques for reducing organizational staff while minimizing such harmful effects as layoffs, staff demoralization, and productivity losses. Case studies on the Petroleum Incentives Administration, the British Columbia Buildings Corporation, and the National Library of Canada present approaches to downsizing that utilized long range…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Foreign Countries, Incentives, Library Administration
Mackenzie, A. Graham – 1990
This technical report presents recommendations and plans which are the result of a mission undertaken as part of a project to promote a scientific and technological information service and establish a popular science resource center in Korea. The mission's main emphasis was to help Korean authorities and the United Nations Development Programme…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Library Administration
Peer reviewedNofsinger, Mary M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1988
Describes an exchange program between academic libraries in Sichuan Province and Washington State University, and discusses the Chinese approach to academic librarianship in the areas of management and personnel, access and circulation, automation, reference services, collection development and censorship, and library facilities. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Censorship
Haycock, Ken – 1992
This book brings together relevant doctoral research related to the instructional effectiveness of the elementary and secondary school librarian and school library. The research is distilled from supervised research studies conducted at North American universities. In the opening section, the book describes what works, based on findings about…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
