Managing 21st Century Libraries

by Pugh, Lyndon

• ISBN13: 9780810851856
• ISBN10: 0810851857
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Managing 21st Century Libraries is primarily concerned with creating the circumstances in which people can maximize the use of their talents and generating the opportunities for people to work with others in ways that engage all of the abilities of everyone involved. It is about developing an organization that is an interesting, stimulating, provocative, and effective place to work. Above all, the book is about the ways in which library managers and staff can develop systems for managing contemporary library services, and thus take advantage of the unique combination of circumstances that provide the potential for innovative organization development in the library services of today. It relates important issues in people management to the characteristics of libraries that deal significantly with both digital and printed material.

Author Biography

Lyndon Pugh teaches management in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Part 1: The Background and the Basics
Contemporary Library Characteristics	3	(20)
A Modern Perspective	23	(24)
Structures	47	(30)
Part 2: Managing People in Contemporary Libraries
Skills for Managing and Learning	77	(22)
Leadership	99	(18)
The Player Manager	117	(16)
Motivation	133	(12)
Part 3: A Solution
Some Team Issues	145	(32)
A Team Model	177	(20)
Bibliography	197	(8)
Index	205	(6)
About the Author	211