The Essex County College Learning Resources Center was established within a two-month period in 1968, allowing no time to train personnel, develop procedures, or do organized planning. Consequently, the Director developed a tight central leadership and decision-making system. It was decided that the organization needed a management system that would guide the organization toward pre-set goals, decentralize decision-making, provide performance standards, improve individual performance, increase motivation, and create participative management. The management by objectives (MBO) system was chosen. Staff were trained in MBO procedures. Written objectives were prepared for projects to be executed between February, 1972 and January, 1973. A scheduling board was set up to facilitate visual followup of the projects. Evaluative procedures for testing the results were also set up. Findings show that there is better planning, since department heads have to prepare objectives periodically. MBO improved the Director's performance by decentralizing his authority. Evaluation is facilitated through the wealth of quantitative and qualitative data offered by MBO. It was concluded, based on one year of testing, that MBO provided considerable administrative improvement. (KM)