Management Basics for Information Professionals

The fourth edition of Management Basics for Information Professionals offers an updated, comprehensive examination of the myriad of basic skills effective library managers must exercise throughout their careers. Since its initial publication this text has served as an essential resource for both LIS students and practitioners. Journal of Hospital Librarianship deemed it ‘a librarian’s dream… very forward-thinking.’ The new fourth edition offers an updated, comprehensive examination of the myriad of basic skills effective library managers must exercise throughout their careers. Throughout, G.Edward Evans and new co-author Stacey Greenwell pay close attention to management in ‘new normal’ straitened economic conditions and the pervasive impact of technology on a library manager’s role. Coverage includes: a new focus on how being in the public/non-profit sector influences the application of management basics such as planning, accountability, trust and delegation, decision-making, principles of effective organizational communication, fostering change and innovation, quality control, and marketing the managerial environment, organizational skill sets, the importance of a people-friendly organization, and legal issues key points on leadership, team-building, and human resource management budget, resource, and technology management management ethics, with a lengthy discussion of why ethics matter and tips for planning a library career, with a look at the work/life debate. This book, to quote Australian Library Journal, is ‘a recommended text for library science students, but is also an excellent source of information for career librarians wanting to refresh their knowledge of library management in a fast-moving information services environment.’

Reflecting the rapidly changing sphere of information services, this introduction to the management of libraries builds the basic skills good library managers must exercise. It offers an approach on the fundamental concepts of management while recognizing the diverse needs of different operating environments. 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. This edition features two new chapters - Managing Diversity and Career Development - and is kept up to current by material housed on the Web. 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. A practical, up-to-date introduction to library management, here is a text that will appeal to LIS educators, new and experienced libraries 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.