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Library and Information Center Management
This essential, single-volume textbook supplies a comprehensive introduction to library management that addresses all the functions of management, specifically within the ever-evolving modern library environment.
Strategic planning. Facilities management. Leadership, ethics, communication, and motivation. Human resources and staffing. Change, library development, and innovation. Marketing. Measurement and evaluation. Fiscal responsibility and control. These are just some of the wide range of responsibilities and necessary skills of contemporary library managers—not all of which are typically covered in detail in LIS educational programs.
Now updated and expanded for its ninth edition, Libraries Unlimited's Library and Information Center Management is the core management text for library information science programs. This latest text adds new information on grant writing as well as more about budgets, marketing, financial management, assessment, and evidence-based management. The authors include various real-world examples from international settings to help readers understand and conceptualize the place of the library and information center in our global world. Each chapter ends with two helpful sections that present numerous examples and opportunities to apply newly gained "Practice Your Skills" and "Discussion Questions."
Strategic planning. Facilities management. Leadership, ethics, communication, and motivation. Human resources and staffing. Change, library development, and innovation. Marketing. Measurement and evaluation. Fiscal responsibility and control. These are just some of the wide range of responsibilities and necessary skills of contemporary library managers—not all of which are typically covered in detail in LIS educational programs.
Now updated and expanded for its ninth edition, Libraries Unlimited's Library and Information Center Management is the core management text for library information science programs. This latest text adds new information on grant writing as well as more about budgets, marketing, financial management, assessment, and evidence-based management. The authors include various real-world examples from international settings to help readers understand and conceptualize the place of the library and information center in our global world. Each chapter ends with two helpful sections that present numerous examples and opportunities to apply newly gained "Practice Your Skills" and "Discussion Questions."
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570 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 16, 2017
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February 11, 2025
Textbook for MLIS Management course.
Felt way too focused on potential technological futures that may or may not come to fruition. Did not feel helpful to practical public librarianship.
Felt way too focused on potential technological futures that may or may not come to fruition. Did not feel helpful to practical public librarianship.
July 17, 2025
I did not enjoy the overly wordy "business-speak" in which this book was written. It seemed as if the authors were using as many words as possible to say the same thing over and over again without making any real point a lot of the time. It reminded me of a pompous, stereotypical manager blowing hot air as he pretends to listen to your concerns and address your issues by explaining the "office culture" through an overuse of sports metaphors or some other nonsensical garbage. That said, I feel like there were several points to be made throughout the book, but they were bogged down by an overabundance of charts and graphs and way too many rambling sentences leading nowhere.
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