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Peer reviewedVasi, John – Library Trends, 1987
Factors to be considered in designing a comfortable library work environment are identified as new technology, changing relationships between library staff and patrons, and increased awareness of human needs of staff. Features of furniture and equipment for service desk areas, staff work areas, and office areas are discussed. (5 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Furniture Design, Human Factors Engineering, Library Automation, Library Equipment
Bunge, Charles – Library Journal, 1987
Reports results of a survey of 800 library staff members on aspects of library work that they find stressful. The findings include sources of satisfaction and stress for all participants, and sources of stress specific to public services librarians, technical services librarians, and support staff members. (CLB)
Descriptors: Burnout, Job Satisfaction, Library Personnel, Stress Management
Peer reviewedHoffmann, Ellen – Library Hi Tech, 1988
Discussion of issues in management of library automation includes: (1) hardware, including systems growth and contracts; (2) software changes, vendor relations, local systems, and microcomputer software; (3) item and authority databases; (4) automation and library staff, organizational structure, and managing change; and (5) environmental issues,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Financial Support, Library Administration
Peer reviewedWhite, Herbert S. – Canadian Library Journal, 1987
Discusses the problem of incompetent library supervisors in terms of the process that results in the selection of such supervisors, inappropriate supervisory behaviors, and the effects on employees. Several strategies for coping with an incompetent supervisor are suggested. (4 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Selection, Competence
Download full textGriffiths, Jose-Marie – 1983
Ways the education and training of information professionals can adapt to the rapidly changing information environment are addressed in this paper, which describes a project undertaken by King Research ("New Directions in Library and Information Science Education") to identify current and future competency requirements of librarians and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Information Services, Job Analysis, Librarians
Peer reviewedNauratil, Marcia J. – Canadian Library Journal, 1987
Discusses the phenomenon of burnout among human service professionals in general, and librarians specifically, and argues that lack of professional autonomy is the true underlying cause. Suggested measures for eliminating or coping with burnout include activities at the individual, professional, and societal levels. (10 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Alienation, Burnout, Human Services, Library Personnel
Weaver-Meyers, Pat; And Others – 1989
A dramatic increase in interlibrary loan (ILL) in academic and research libraries in the last five years, combined with a changing office environment, is forcing reassessment of the relationship between the volume and cost of loans to service quality. In the spring of 1988, a survey was sent to 116 member libraries of the Association of Research…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency, Guidelines
