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Goldberg, Robert L. – Catholic Library World, 1979
Discusses the application of participative management within a college library environment, and sketches management theories pertaining to the hierarchy of human needs, motivation, Rensis Likert's Systems Four, and Herzberg's dissatisfiers. (FM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Administration, Management Systems, Participation
Seeman, Corey – Computers in Libraries, 2002
Explains why libraries need to move beyond the limitations of their old technology when they move to new computer systems with wider boundaries. Describes how to change the work flow by focusing on time factors, including implementation; coordination for staff and departments; patience; reports; and improving public services. (LRW)
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Personnel, Library Services
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DeCandido, Robert – Microform Review, 1990
Discusses issues related to the value of searching to determine whether a work has already been microfilmed prior to filming the work for preservation purposes: (1) advantages of duplicate filming; (2) the integrity of existing master films; and (3) the cost of a replacement film. (seven references) (MES)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Library Administration, Library Materials, Microreproduction
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Bell, Steven J.; Cronin-Kardon, Cynthia – College & Research Libraries, 1998
Offers exploratory research on the automation decision process for library administrators who are considering a new library management system (LMS) and those factors that lead to decision difficulty. Using the Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice as a theoretical framework for LMS, this study uses decision resolution as a criterion of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Organizational Theories
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2005
In many professional roles, long-term vision may help guide short-term decisions. This is especially true for school library professionals as library media programs are constantly evolving. This author suggests strategies to assist library media specialists to nurture their vision and provides reviews of several sources and experts in the field…
Descriptors: Media Specialists, School Libraries, Library Services, Library Administration
Beyers, Catherine – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2005
Any successful library media center or program requires advanced planning. In this column, the author advocates the development of measurable goals for library media programs and describes several resources that can be used to help meet these goals and, at the same time, succeed in providing what the patrons most want out of the library media…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Library Services, School Libraries, Library Administration
Gordon, Rachel Singer – Library Journal, 2004
In the evolving librarian profession, perhaps the most important skill is the ability to become change leaders within the organizations. If librarians truly want to bring the NextGen enthusiasm, outlook, and skills to bear on institutions and profession, then they must be able to inspire colleagues. Librarians need to be able to show when and why…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Leadership, Librarians, Change Strategies
Rogers, Michael – Library Journal, 2004
This article discusses the events that occurred when Donald J. Olson was arrested for arrested for insider trading and SEC violations. Olson had been arrested for embezzling money from his own company, cooking the books to hide the missing funds, providing insider financial information to friends to boost stock prices, and numerous other offenses.…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Administration, Library Role, Legal Responsibility
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2004
This article reports on the newly revamped version of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), the nation's largest electronic education library. ERIC made its debut last September with promises of more offerings to come from the federal project. In the move to upgrade and streamline ERIC, the Department of Education shut down the 16…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Databases, Library Administration, Library Services
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Zuccala, Alesia; Oppenheim, Charles; Dhiensa, Rajveen – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: We examine the role of the digital repository manager, discuss the future of repository management and evaluation and suggest that library and information science schools develop new repository management curricula. Method: Face-to-face interviews were carried out with managers of five different types of repositories and a Web-based…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Science, Electronic Libraries, Archives
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2006
"ARL" is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). "ARL" reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff and…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Information Policy, Electronic Publishing, Research Libraries
Neal, James G. – Library Journal, 2006
Academic libraries now hire an increasing number of individuals to fill professional librarian positions who do not have the master's degree in library science. Academic libraries are also creating a wide range of new professional assignments that demand diverse educational backgrounds. Additionally, responsibilities formerly carried out by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Education
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Crothers, Stephen; Prabhu, Margaret; Sullivan, Shirley – Acquisitions Librarian, 2007
The authors recount experiences of the variety of problems and issues involved in providing access to electronic journals in a large academic library. The paper excludes concerns emanating from decisions to subscribe to aggregations such as those produced by vendors like EBSCO, but concentrates on scholarly journals ordered individually, or as…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Library Administration, Library Materials
Willard, D. Dean – Library Journal, 1976
To administer successfully one must start at the beginning and consider actual events in the organization, events not dictated by administrative behavior but by individual behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Librarians, Library Administration
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Kaplan, Louis – College and Research Libraries, 1975
In a bibliographic essay, participation in management is explored. (PF)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Library Administration, Participative Decision Making, Professional Personnel
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