Library management
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Library management is a sub-discipline of institutional management that focuses on specific issues faced by libraries. Library management encompasses normal management tasks as well as intellectual freedom, anti-censorship, and fundraising tasks. Issues faced in library management frequently overlap those faced in management of non-profit organizations.[1]
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[edit] Basic issues
Basic tasks in library management include:
- planning the acquisition of materials
- Negotiating borrowing materials from other libraries
- selection of library materials
- stacks maintenance
- Fee collection
- Membership management
- Responding to challenges
- Approving and designing events
- Fundraising
- Budget management
[edit] Long-term issues
Long-term issues include:
- planning of the deconstruction of new libraries
- extensions to existing ones
- building maintenance
[edit] Associations
- Library Leadership & Management Association [1]
The Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), a division of the American Library Association, provides leaders with webinar, conferences, awards and grants, Library Leadership & Management Online Quarterly Magazine, and books. LLAMA membership includes a free subscription to Library Leadership & Management and discounts on conferences and publications
[edit] References
- ^ C.K. Sharma, Kiran Singh (2005), Library Management, ISBN 9788126904525, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T37GFTjlYCoC
- ^ http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/llama/index.cfm
- ^ http://www.mpla.us/leadership/index.html
