The Art Of People Management In Libraries

Author : James McKinlay,Vicki Williamson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781780630243

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The Art of People Management in Libraries by James McKinlay,Vicki Williamson Pdf

This book explores recent trends in human resource management practices and presents options for their application within the special context of libraries, especially academic and research libraries. It lays out a set of the most pressing HR management issues facing senior library leaders in the context of continuous organisational change in the 21st century and offers library practitioners effective tips for people management. A practical ‘how-to’ book that provides realistic and proven solutions to real-world challenges Provides examples from organizations to highlight concepts and their applications Summary of key points at the end of each chapter, as well as specific tips in three areas: A – Attention (things to pay attention to); R – Results (initiatives that help to achieve desired results) and T – Techniques (ways to apply the concepts presented.

Author : James McKinlay (MHRD.),Vicki Williamson
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1843344246

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The ART of People Management in Libraries by James McKinlay (MHRD.),Vicki Williamson Pdf

This book explores recent trends in human resource management practices and presents options for their application within the special context of libraries, especially academic and research libraries. It lays out a set of the most pressing HR management issues facing senior library leaders in the context of continuous organisational change in the 21st century and offers library practitioners effective tips for people management.

Author : G. Kim Dority
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598849325

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LIS Career Sourcebook by G. Kim Dority Pdf

A must-have guide of professional development resources for library staff at every phase of their career—from those just entering the field, to paraprofessionals building a career trajectory, to seasoned librarians looking to explore additional career options. Thousands of students graduate with a Master of Library and Information Science degree every year. Unfortunately, budget cuts at libraries diminish available job opportunities and prompt administrators to hire less qualified—and less expensive—professionals. However, armed with the right information, library science professionals can successfully build and sustain a resilient library and information science (LIS) career inside—or outside—the traditional library setting. LIS Career Sourcebook: Managing and Maximizing Every Step of Your Career provides a chapter-by-chapter overview of key career stages and strategies, and identifies for each the best information resources to help readers develop a successful LIS career. The author lays out the typical stages that workers are likely to encounter as they move through their professional life, highlighting important issues associated with each stage and providing insights and resources for making smart career choices along the way. Covering the entire career lifespan from entry level to retirement, the resources cited will help readers make informed choices about career options, professional development, and personal career satisfaction.

Author : Library Leadership and Management Association. Human Resources Section. Staff Development Committee
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780838911495

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Staff Development by Library Leadership and Management Association. Human Resources Section. Staff Development Committee Pdf

This new edition offers unique, state-of-the-art perspectives on library staff development and training.

Author : G. Edward Evans,Sheila S. Intner,Jean Weihs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781591588900

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Introduction to Technical Services by G. Edward Evans,Sheila S. Intner,Jean Weihs Pdf

Used in library schools worldwide, this standard text provides students with a thorough understanding of technical services. Updated and expanded, the eighth edition further emphasizes the rapidly changing environment in which technical services are conducted. The book covers all aspects of the field—from acquisitions to managing the cataloging department—with five new chapters. "Technical Services Issues" includes material related to physical space needs; "E-resources Issues" examines how the growth of e-materials impact technical services work; "Copy Cataloging" reflects the ever increasing need to be more efficient and also to save limited funds for technical services activities; "Overview and Decisions" addresses the issue of why and how the local OPAC has become a gateway to the universe of knowledge; and "Processing Materials" covers the activities involved in making sure items that go into a library's collection are properly identified as belonging to the library and where the item is physically located in the collection. All other chapters have been extensively rewritten and updated to reflect 2010 technical service functions and activities. Complete with helpful illustrations, statistics, and study guide questions, this text is a must for library and information science students!

Author : Peter Jordan,Caroline Lloyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351898379

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Staff Management in Library and Information Work by Peter Jordan,Caroline Lloyd Pdf

This standard text has been fully revised and updated for its fourth edition to reflect continuing technological changes, as well as issues such as social inclusion, lifelong learning and European employment legislation. Chapter 1 on the working environment has been completely rewritten. The present environment brings problems of staff motivation, de-professionalization and the loss of control: Chapter 2 reminds readers of basic motivation theories, now presented in a more logical sequence, and how to deal with such problems. Chapter 3 on workforce planning has been retitled Human Resource Planning and revised to take into account the modes of staffing appropriate for today's turbulent environment. Effective human resource planning requires excellent selection and recruitment procedures: best practice and developments in this area are explored in Chapters 4, Job Descriptions and Person Specifications, and 5, Recruitment and Selection of Staff. In Chapter 6 on staff appraisal more attention has been given to multi-rating approaches, such as 360° whereby different aspects of work can be assessed by different groups of people, and to appraisal of junior by senior staff. The last decade has seen increased emphasis on training and development to deliver high quality services in a climate of constant change. Chapter 7 has therefore been reordered and expanded in order to reflect new approaches and changes in this area. In Chapter 8, Staff Supervision and Interpersonal Skills, recent emphasis on leadership and counselling skills are reflected, as is the growing need to do more with less through enhanced time management and stress management techniques. With this new edition, this core guide brings professionals involved in managing library and information staff up to date with how to cope with the most pressing problems and challenges in today's fast-changing environment.

Author : Gisela M. Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000757774

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Human Resources Management in Libraries by Gisela M. Webb Pdf

In this book, first published in 1989, educators, library administrators, and human resources managers will find helpful insights into the vital role they can play in attracting pro-active people to the profession, changing current library structures and staffing patterns to meet emerging information needs, and developing existing staff to cope with conflicting demands. Contributors to this valuable new book also explore the human resources implications of the changing mission of libraries; the challenges faced by public services; the need to reallocate, reclassify, and retain existing staff; and the increasingly important role that human resources specialists play in libraries in transition.

Author : Janice Simmons-Welburn,Beth McNeil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313052804

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Human Resource Management in Today's Academic Library by Janice Simmons-Welburn,Beth McNeil Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive look at issues that shape the nature of Human Resources in academic libraries. Libraries in varying academic environments have undergone tremendous change during the last two decades of the 20th century as they have sought redefinition as learning organizations. As organizations they have experienced significant changes in the role and definition of professionalism, along with challenges from such shifting workplace demographics as age and ethnicity and technological issues, which have also had direct impact on the recruitment and retention of staff. Much of the attention of human resources administrators in academic libraries has focused on an array of issues that mirrors concerns across campuses: affirmative action and diversity, the rights of employees with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the impact of the Family Medical Leave Act and other directives on employee benefits, salary equity, and a desire among employees for flexible work schedules.

Author : Tinker Massey
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780630168

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Managing Change and People in Libraries by Tinker Massey Pdf

Managing Change and People in Libraries is designed to help library staff find options and compromises to personnel and management problems associated with the constant changes faced in libraries today. This text looks at theories of management, how people and processes change the stresses faced, how to analyze problems, find directions for change to be used and learn how to change negatives into positives in the workplace. The book is designed to help readers find direction and purpose in working practice. Theories explained through real life examples Alternatives developed out of facts Common principles of behaviour applied to management changes

Author : Richard Rubin
Publisher : New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015029712497

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Human Resource Management in Libraries by Richard Rubin Pdf

Critical human resources are becoming more scarce and management needs to be more knowledgeable about people-related issues. However, many libraries do not have human resource specialists. This book relates the field of human resources to the library world in concept and in specific example.

Author : Barbara B. Moran,Claudia J. Morner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216111160

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Library and Information Center Management by Barbara B. Moran,Claudia J. Morner Pdf

This essential, single-volume textbook supplies a comprehensive introduction to library management that addresses all the functions of management, specifically within the ever-evolving modern library environment. Strategic planning. Facilities management. Leadership, ethics, communication, and motivation. Human resources and staffing. Change, library development, and innovation. Marketing. Measurement and evaluation. Fiscal responsibility and control. These are just some of the wide range of responsibilities and necessary skills of contemporary library managers—not all of which are typically covered in detail in LIS educational programs. Now updated and expanded for its ninth edition, Libraries Unlimited's Library and Information Center Management is the core management text for library information science programs. This latest text adds new information on grant writing as well as more about budgets, marketing, financial management, assessment, and evidence-based management. The authors include various real-world examples from international settings to help readers understand and conceptualize the place of the library and information center in our global world. Each chapter ends with two helpful sections that present numerous examples and opportunities to apply newly gained information: "Practice Your Skills" and "Discussion Questions."

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 5601 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351041577

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Routledge Library Editions: Education Management by Various Pdf

Reissuing works originally published between 1975 and 1997, this collection includes books covering all aspect of managing schools, from primary to further education. With an international selection of authors, some volumes present case studies while others address wider areas of concern in the management of educational institutions. Individual volumes concern special schools and specific types such as the grant-maintained system in the UK. Topics cross over from finance to staff development to politics and governance to innovation. This is an excellent varied set for any education management bookshelf.

Author : Maureen Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000757835

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Developing Library Staff for the 21st Century by Maureen Sullivan Pdf

This book, first published in 1991, presents a variety of insightful perspectives on how proper human resources management strategies can provide library staff members at all levels with the skills needed for libraries of the future. The shift of the concept of management from control to development means that library administrators must adapt to a more inclusive definition of the human resources field. In addition to such administration activities as recruitment, wage and payroll management, and benefits, human resources management now encompasses all activities that promote greater job satisfaction and support the development of individuals within the context of the workplace. This valuable book examines some of the procedures that can help library managers identify the human resources in their organizations; design and implement programs, policies, and procedures to address these issues; and commit the necessary resources to support the full development of all library staff.

Author : United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Medicine and Surgery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Audio-visual materials
ISBN : IND:30000123197919

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Union List of Audiovisuals in the Library Network of the Veterans Administration by United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Medicine and Surgery Pdf

Author : Mary J. Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015082691901

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Managing Library Employees by Mary J. Stanley Pdf

Whether the HR function in your library is handled by an entire department, or a single individual, this nuts-and-bolts primer is a treasure trove of templates, forms, samples, and checklists that you can start using today. Organized in a Q&A format for quick reference, the author asks the everyday questions that few other guides bother to address. How do you write a job description? What kinds of questions should I ask in the interview? How should star employees be recognized? What are the most important elements in training staff? How do we handle a Reduction in Force? Every answer is specifically tailored to libraries' particular needs and circumstances. From the basics of hiring and firing, training, evaluation, legal requirements, recruitment and retention to hot topics like attracting minorities to librarianship, the "graying" of the library workforce, technologies useful for HR tasks, and more, this book gives you the full range of need-to-know information. Particularly useful for students, new professionals, and occasional or "accidental" HR managers who need a reference to consult as issues arise, this book is the ideal go-to guide for quick, well informed advice, useful summaries of the most important research and professional resources, and proven HR tools for every kind of library.