Management Basics for Information Professionals
3rd Edition
Published on 31. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-1-85604-954-2 (ISBN)
Description
Completely revised and expanded to reflect the rapidly changing sphere of information services, this comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries builds the basic skills good library managers must exercise. The authors offer an authoritative approach on the fundamental concepts of management while recognizing the diverse needs of different operating environments. Drawing from examples of successful leadership techniques from a variety of services - archives, information brokers, libraries, records managements and more, this book demonstrates the most effective ways to plan, delegate, make decisions, communicate, and lead a team. Equal emphasis is placed on personal, fiscal, and technological issues, as well as a look at what the future may hold for incoming managers. Readership: LIS educators, new and experienced librarians in management positions, students, and anyone wishing to acquire a sound knowledge of both the theory and practice of management within the changing information workforce.
Reviews / Votes
The two principal authors have professional experience in a variety of roles and organisations, and this is very evident in the attention to detail they bring to the subject. Overall, this is a comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries and will more than likely be a prescribed text for library science students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. -- Australian Library Journal For anyone teaching management concepts to library and information science (LIS) students, you could find no better text to assign than Management basics for information professionals. For recent graduates, and those beginning supervisory roles, this is definitely a book to keep in your office. -- SLA Leadership and Management Division Evans, an administrator, researcher, teacher, and writer, and Alire outline the basics of management for librarians. They describe the operating environment; managerial skill sets, including planning, power, accountability, responsibility, delegating, decision making, communicating, changing and innovating, assessment, quality control, operations, and marketing and advocacy; motivating and leading people, addressing diversity, and staffing; managing money, technology, and physical facilities; and managing one's career. This edition has new chapters on legal issues, building teams, and ethics; updates technological topics like social media; and adds new sidebars relating the authors' and advisory board members' experiences. -- Reference and Research Book News A very well thought through and well written text...I will include this book into the reading list of the next autumn courses on managing libraries and I would recommend it to other teachers working in this field. It also can be useful to those librarians who have changed their mind and finally decided to embark on a managerial career or simply look for some good materials that will help to augment their professional skills. -- Information Research This is an excellent title. In some ways, it is a textbook, but I prefer to see it as an overview of the management needs within our profession and for those who work in it. The book can be quietly browsed, reminding us of the various aspects to our profession. Coming into its third edition it has been a very successful title. -- Australian Academic & Research Libraries This large tome is a distillation of theories, research, and best practices gathered by the authors and some library leaders who helped annotate the twenty-one chapters, three of which are new since the 2007 second edition. Despite the title, the book is for anyone working - or studying to work - in libraries, from entry-level professionals through directors...a printed resource that will repay reading many times over. -- Catholic Library WorldMore details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85604-954-2 (9781856049542)
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Persons
G. Edward Evans is an administrator, researcher, teacher, and writer. He holds several graduate degrees in anthropology and library and information science. As a researcher he has published in both fields, and held a Fulbright (librarianship) and National Science Foundation (anthropology) Fellowship. His teaching experience has also been in both fields in the U.S. and the Nordic countries. Most of his administrative experience has been in private academic libraries--Harvard and Loyola Marymount Universities. He retired from full-time work as Associate Academic Vice president for Libraries and Information Resources. Author of numerous books, he consults for and volunteers at the Museum of Northern Arizona library and archives and Flagstaff City, Coconino Country Library System.
Camila Alire is Dean Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University. She is Past-President of the ALA, ALA/APA, the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and also REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to the Spanish-speaking. She has co-authored books on library service to Latino communities and disaster planning and recovery. She was the first recipient of ALA's Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award and was named one year by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States.
Camila Alire is Dean Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University. She is Past-President of the ALA, ALA/APA, the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and also REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to the Spanish-speaking. She has co-authored books on library service to Latino communities and disaster planning and recovery. She was the first recipient of ALA's Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award and was named one year by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States.
Content
PART I: MANAGERIAL ENVIRONMENT 1. Introduction 2. Operating environment 3. Legal issues and library management PART II: MANAGERIAL SKILL SETS 4. The planning process 5. Power, accountability and responsibility 6. Delegating 7. Decision making 8. Communicating 9. Changing and innovating 10. Assessment, quality control and operations 11. Marketing and advocacy PART III: MANAGING PEOPLE 12. Motivating 13. Leading 14. Building teams 15. Addressing diversity 16. Staffing PART IV: MANAGING THINGS 17. Managing money 18. Managing technology 19. Managing and planning physical facilities PART V: MANAGING YOURSELF AND YOUR CAREER 20. Ethics 21. Planning your career.