The Smaller Academic Library: A Management Handbook

The Smaller Academic Library: A Management Handbook

by Gerard B. McCabe
ISBN-10:
0313250278
ISBN-13:
9780313250279
Pub. Date:
04/11/1988
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0313250278
ISBN-13:
9780313250279
Pub. Date:
04/11/1988
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
The Smaller Academic Library: A Management Handbook

The Smaller Academic Library: A Management Handbook

by Gerard B. McCabe

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Overview

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.
Jourbanal 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313250279
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/11/1988
Series: Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection
Pages: 391
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

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

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