The Smaller Academic Library
A Management Handbook
Published on 11. April 1988
Book
Hardback
391 pages
978-0-313-25027-9 (ISBN)
Description
As advertised, the book offers a source of strategies and practical solutions to vexing and recurrent problems which readers can tailor to their individual needs. By and large, the authors eschew the theoretical and anecdotal extremes in favor of applied, first-hand experience with good effect. The book is carefully edited, well indexed, has a serviceable binding, and clear sharp type. It is highly recommended as an important resource that belongs in the professional collection of every small academic library.
Journal of Academic Librarianship
The Smaller Academic Library, which is a collection of thirty essays by diverse hands on the management of libraries in colleges of up to about 7,500 students, should help practitioners build that kind of leadership and sense of mission. It contains, in general, an excellent body of information on the administration, personnel, budgets and finance, collections, user programs and services, and physical plant that touches on virtually every aspect of the administration, management, and operation of smaller academic libraries in a lively and useful fashion. Wilson Library Bulletin
This handbook is intended for librarians involved with smaller academic libraries, that is, those which serve institutions with enrollments from 200 to 7,500 students. Consisting of contributions from librarians actually working in these libraries, it is intended to provide solutions to recurrent problems. The contributors offer their own strategies for use both as models and as starting points from which readers may generate their own solutions. They possess a wide range of experience and discuss a broad spectrum of pertinent topics. This is apt considering the diverse character of smaller academic setting, may also evidence a common set of problems. Each chapter includes either references or a bibliography, and a bibliographic essay completes the volume.
Journal of Academic Librarianship
The Smaller Academic Library, which is a collection of thirty essays by diverse hands on the management of libraries in colleges of up to about 7,500 students, should help practitioners build that kind of leadership and sense of mission. It contains, in general, an excellent body of information on the administration, personnel, budgets and finance, collections, user programs and services, and physical plant that touches on virtually every aspect of the administration, management, and operation of smaller academic libraries in a lively and useful fashion. Wilson Library Bulletin
This handbook is intended for librarians involved with smaller academic libraries, that is, those which serve institutions with enrollments from 200 to 7,500 students. Consisting of contributions from librarians actually working in these libraries, it is intended to provide solutions to recurrent problems. The contributors offer their own strategies for use both as models and as starting points from which readers may generate their own solutions. They possess a wide range of experience and discuss a broad spectrum of pertinent topics. This is apt considering the diverse character of smaller academic setting, may also evidence a common set of problems. Each chapter includes either references or a bibliography, and a bibliographic essay completes the volume.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
754 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-25027-9 (9780313250279)
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Person
GERARD B. McCABE is Director of Libraries at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Smaller Academic Library: A Management Handbook (Greenwood, 1988).
Content
Preface General Administration Administrative Styles by Fred M. Heath The Small-College Library Director by Herbert D. Safford Community Relations by John K. Amrhein Statistics and Record Keeping by Ronnie W. Faulkner Personnel Personnel Management in the Library by David R. Dowell Staff and Unions by George H. Libbey Staff Development and Continuing Education in Smaller Academic Libraries by Kenneth G. Walter New Patterns for Managing the Small Staff by Gerard B. McCabe Budgets and Finance Budgets in the Smaller Academic Libraries by Murray S. Martin Staff Management and Budget in Small Academic Libraries by Floyd C. Hardy The Library's Materials Budget and Its Management by Kathryn A. Soupiset, Craig S. Likness, and Richard Hume Werking Library Budgeting and Financial Management in the Public Academic Library by Robert L. White and Allan J. Dyson Collection Bibliographic Control of Library Collections by Eugene R. Hanson Archives Administration by Susan Grigg Periodicals Management by Donald K. Tribit Collection-Size Management by Frederick E. Smith User Programs and Services Library Instruction for the Small Academic Library: The Total Approach by Janet McNeil Hurlbert Computer-Assisted Library Instruction by Terrence F. Mech It's the Little Things that Count: Methods of Improving Reference Services by Deborah Pawlik Off-Campus Library Services and the Smaller Academic Library by Jean S. Johnson Students in the Library by J. Daniel Vann III Audiovisual Services by Douglas A. Green Satellite Transmission for Voice, Text Data, and Video by David M. Lawrence Technical Services Managing Library Automation in Smaller Academic Institutions by Katharina Klemperer Networking for the Small Academic Library by Dennis E. Robison Integrating Public and Technical Services: Management Issues for Academic Libraries by John M. Cohn Competitive Selection of Domestic Library Booksellers: Developing a Request for Quotation by Gerard B. McCabe Physical Plant Space Facilities by Wendy A. Barbour, Catherine Doyle, and Hugh J. Treacy Facilities Planning for the Smaller Academic Library by Bob Carmack Expanding and Renovating the College Library by T. John Metz The Smaller Academic Library: A Bibliographic Essay by Rashelle S. Karp Index