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Inherent Strategies in Library Management
This book examines how to introduce new management strategies into the library context to achieve efficiency without sacrificing core library values
Masanori Koizumi (Author)
9780081012772, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 4 April 2017
234 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.39 kg
Inherent Strategies in Library Management describes general and specific strategies for libraries based on core library values, and does so through concrete research. Many strategic management books for libraries introduce concepts of business management to the library world, but often neglect traditional library culture and core values. This book reexamines management through the lens of libraries themselves, rather than relying on strategies borrowed from the business world, in an attempt to bring to light the factors and decision-making processes behind how librarians have run their libraries over the past fifty decades. In other words, their decisions can be regarded as inherent management, born naturally from the core foundations, considerations, and operations of libraries. In addition, this book investigates the broad influences of business management theories on libraries, including a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of their use.
1. Overview of Library Management 2. Influence of Business Management Theories on Libraries from 1960s to 2010s 3. Incompatibility of Business Management Theories in Library Management 4. Evolution of Library Organisation and Librarian Specialities 5. General Strategies and Specific Strategies for Libraries
Subject Areas: Community & outreach services [GLMX], Library, archive & information management [GLC], Library & information sciences [GL]
