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Wolfermann, Nancy B.; Becker, Jeanne Corr – Special Libraries, 1975
Describes the procedures that were developed to create a union catalog and to centralize technical services for a school of medicine library and a school of nursing library. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Centralization, Library Administration, Library Collections, Library Technical Processes

Boaz, Martha – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1975
A discussion of academic librarianship, including faculty status for librarians, collective bargaining and unions, library cooperation and consortia, and decision-making and planning. (LS)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Libraries, Librarians, Library Administration
Buser-Molatore, Marcia, Comp. – 1981
Limited to books, this bibliography and union catalog list of the library holdings of 27 Oregon academic, public, government, and special libraries is a selection of resource materials intended to be representative of the concerns of librarians responsible for the management of special libraries and information centers. Organized by subject and…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Collections, Library Planning, Resource Materials
Larson, Thelma – 1981
Recognizing the paraprofessional as a valued asset for the accomplishment of routine library services and techniques while freeing the professional librarian for those duties truly requiring a professional education, this paper presents academic library administrators with an inservice training handbook to prepare and improve the skills of library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Inservice Education, Library Administration, Library Education
Horowitz, Blanche – 1975
This manual provides a concise and comprehensive "how to" guide to starting and maintaining a family planning/population library. In addition to the step-by-step procedures necessary for acquiring and organizing book and non-book material, a classification scheme is presented for providing documents, articles, pamphlets, and books with numbers for…
Descriptors: Family Planning, Guides, Library Administration, Library Technical Processes
Fang, Josephine Riss – 1979
Librarians may most effectively promote library legislation needed to further the goals of libraries and library service through legislative lobbying activities. The legal basis for library legislation exists in the undisputed fact that libraries are agencies of learning and therefore merit the same legislative attention as schools. The most basic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legislation, Libraries, Library Administration
McLean, Dulce DiDio – 1975
The control function of an organization includes the comparison of set management goals and performance. A trend has emerged in recent years to replace subjective judgments by objective measurements of performance in libraries. The credibility of statistical data, however, depends on accuracy used in gathering, logic applied in assemblage and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Evaluation, Libraries, Library Administration
Lowell, Mildred Hawksworth – 1975
This textbook attempts to introduce the case study method into the curriculum for training librarians. Cases are written with emphases on a stable activity-authority environment, good management and planning, proper response to internal and external demands, and complex business game situations. Many cases are intended for role playing use. (EMH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Education
North Dakota State Library Commission, Bismarck. – 1976
Designed for board members, this manual includes basic information applicable to any public library trustee. General information is provided and trustee responsibilities and duties are outlined. Appendixes include the North Dakota Public Library Law, a monthly report form, the library bill of rights, and a 16-item bibliography of books,…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Governing Boards, Guides, Library Administration
Yarbrough, Larry N. – 1975
There is a need for increased efficiency and effectiveness in the employment of the library's human resources. Performance appraisal can serve as a basis for salary and advancement decisions, career development, and performance improvement. Three criteria for performance appraisal can be distinguished: (1) the trait approach, (2) the job…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, College Libraries, Librarians, Library Administration
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Univ. Library Management Studies. – 1975
Future directions for the Office of University Library Management Studies include the development and extension of new applications of their Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). A management audit, which would telescope MRAP into a diagnostic tool for use by research libraries, and the Services Development Program, which would provide a…
Descriptors: Administration, Annual Reports, College Libraries, Library Administration
Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1976
Temple University began use of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) system in January 1972. Implementation involved the development of detailed processing operation procedures. A comparison of manual and automated procedures at Temple illustrated the difficulties of changing from one system to the other and of the automated system itself.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Library Administration, Library Networks
Thomas, Pauline – 1976
This study is aimed at clarifying the objectives of the Technion Libraries' Systems, both within the Technion and as a national information resource, by defining the structure, organization, and methods to achieve these objectives. It considers Technion's future plans and current library practices as based on reports on the system, Technion…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Planning, Library Role, Library Standards

Casey, Genevieve M. – Library Quarterly, 1978
Discusses the public library's movement toward consolidation/cooperation with other libraries and the administrative, fiscal, and service implications of such a system. Incorporation of the public library into the national information network as a multitype or unitype system is examined through a review of multitype systems in New York and…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Organizational Change

Stuart-Stubbs, Basil – Canadian Library Journal, 1978
Discusses the current problems in interpreting and enforcing Canadian copyright laws, and demonstrates the need for clarification of the roles of both proprietor and user. (JVP)
Descriptors: Copyrights, Foreign Countries, Laws, Legal Problems