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Allen, G. G. – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Discusses three major motivations for in-house library research--planning, problem solving, and staff development--in terms of the functions and responsibilities of library management. Ten stages in a research project are identified and management contribution to each is described. It is concluded that the role of management is critical.…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Library Administration, Library Planning, Library Research
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
In response to Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members' increased interest in the enhancement of manpower resources by greater utilization of paraprofessionals, ARL conducted a survey investigating various aspects of paraprofessional employment in the academic library. For the purposes of the survey, paraprofessional positions were defined…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Personnel
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Turock, Betty J. – Library and Information Science Research, An International Journal, 1984
Reports on research undertaken to develop model for planning and evaluating regional multitype library networks that engage in resource sharing. Identification and interdependence of eight organizational variables (planning, governance, funding, communication and delivery, configuration, administration, evaluation, and success) based upon members'…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Hypothesis Testing, Interviews, Library Administration
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Carlson, David H. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1986
This article discusses tools developed to aid the systems analysis process (program evaluation and review technique, Gantt charts, organizational charts, decision tables, flowcharts, hierarchy plus input-process-output). Similarities and differences among techniques, library applications of analysis, structured systems analysis, and the data flow…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making, Diagrams, Flow Charts
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Bryant, Bonita – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1987
Reviews the influences of organizational evolution and intentional change, library posture toward collection development, personnel management, and human perspectives on the establishment of an administrative framework for achieving collection development goals. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Collection Development
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Pontau, Donna Zufan; Rothschild, M. Cecilia – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Discusses four potential problem areas in the employment of temporary librarians in a variety of positions in academic libraries--orientation, supervision, acceptance and integration, and utilization--and notes the influence of time limitations on the work environment. Solutions are suggested, and further research is proposed. Fourteen sources are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Employment Practices, Higher Education, Librarians
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Cairns, Paul M. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1986
Describes steps in survey project that supplied information for contemplated merger of two libraries by estimating number of volumes and titles and duplication between John Crerar Library collections and University of Chicago Library science collections. Survey's findings for volume duplication are analyzed by subject groupings and by books and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Library Administration
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Scherdin, Mary Jane – College and Research Libraries, 1984
Following a brief survey of relevant literature on concept of learning materials center (LMC), this article describes the innovative approach to LMC organizational design recently adopted at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. It features a joint administrative structure and shared staffing between university library and college of education.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, College Libraries, Curriculum Study Centers
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Brooks, Terrence A.; Forys, John W., Jr. – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Circulation time-series data from 50 midwest academic libraries were used to test 110 variants of 8 smoothing forecasting methods. Data and methodologies and illustrations of two recommended methods--the single exponential smoothing method and Brown's one-parameter linear exponential smoothing method--are given. Eight references are cited. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Library Administration
Olevnik, Peter P. – 1986
This paper reports the results of a study on the role of librarians in college library decision making. Emphasis is placed on the library directors' perceptions of librarians' participation in nine areas of decision making and the form of participation by librarians in these areas. The nine areas of decision making addressed by the study are: the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Higher Education
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Zweizig, Douglas L. – Public Libraries, 1987
Discusses current issues in measuring library effectiveness, including rapid technological changes and increasing obsolescence in librarians' competencies; increased pressure for accountability; tools to help libraries become what they determine they should be rather than conforming to national standards; and how to determine the validity and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning