Effective library and information centre management / Jo Bryson.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction to library and information centre management
An introduction to management
Strategic influences on modern library and information centre management

Part 2 Strategies for understanding the library's or information centre's environment
situation audit.

Part 3 Strategies for managerial processes
The corporate planning process
Human resource planning
Strategies for human resource development
Strategies for decision-making
Competitive strategies - strategic marketing for libraries and information centres.

Part 4 Strategies for structural processes
Organization structures
Strategies for the structural co-ordination of libraries and information centres

Part 5 Strategies for technical effectiveness
Managing technologies in libraries and information centres
Managing expertise in libraries and information centres
Management information systems in libraries and information centres.

Part 6 Strategies for managing the psycho-social environment
Group dynamics
Power, influence, authority and delegation
Strategies for negotiation
Leadership strategies
Motivation issues; strategies for managing conflict
Strategies for managing stress.

Part 7 Strategies for managing the goals and values subsystem: corporate culture in libraries and information centres; strategies for survival - fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in libraries and information centres.

Part 8 Control strategies for libraries and information centres
Budgetting and economic analysis
Performance measures
Managing change.

Epilogue: the final strategy - effective management.

Includes index