library administration

"This guide helps librarians improve service with easy-to-follow strategies and techniques to make physical changes in library space and streamline procedures"--Provided by publisher.

A guide for library management to guide staff members through changes while remaining empathetic, discussing the importance of encouraged active participation, describing ways to navigate common types of changes--space planning, department reorganization, and changes in individual responsibility--and providing short narratives with real-life examples.

Explains how library administrators can use organizational storytelling to communicate shared goals, visions, and values, describing how narratives can be used within the daily workings of a business or organization to enhance leadership, and providing tools to build and improve storytelling skills.

Presents a concise handbook for librarians that provides advice on reducing stress and avoiding procrastination, communicating effectively, improving organizational skills, and understanding the Internet.

Examines the complex and interrelated functions common to the management of libraries and information centers, discussing planning, organization, human resources, leading, and coordinating.

A self-study guide designed to help library managers become great bosses, featuring fifty-two modules that cover attitude, staffing, customer service, communication, planning, success with stakeholders, friends and allies, funding, leadership, training, people, and the future, and including questions and exercises.