Practical Tips for Successful Library Management

Leo Appleton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
Facet Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78330-032-7 (ISBN)

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Today's library and information service managers need to be multi-skilled practitioners, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of multiple professional disciplines while working in operational and strategic managerial and leadership capacities. Managers need support in order to effectively work in such a diversity of professional environments and roles and this new book draws on an international field and all types of library sector to support library managers in their management and leadership vocations.

Practical Tips for Successful Library Management takes management theory and practice and places it within a library and information context so that readers can see how the practical tips provided can be applied in their own roles. You will find flexible tips and implementation advice on topics including:

Leadership and self awareness
Organisational awareness
Project management
Strategic and business planning
Staying in touch with sector developments and innovations
Time management
Budget and people management
Team working
Quality assurance and performance measurement
Liaison and communication
Evaluation and responsiveness
Career planning and work-life balance.

Leo Appleton is a Senior University Teacher in the Information School at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches on library and information services management programmes. He was previously Director of Library Services at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held numerous other leadership and management roles in universities and further education colleges throughout his career. Leo holds a PhD in social informatics from Edinburgh Napier University. He is a chartered fellow of CILIP, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is the editor-in-chief of the New Review of Academic Librarianship.

1. Operational Management 2. Managing People 3. Managing Resources 4. Influencing 5. Strategic Management 6. Project Management 7. Quality Assurance and Performance Measures 8. Partnerships and Collaborations 9. Communication 10. Understanding Yourself

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-78330-032-9 / 1783300329
ISBN-13	978-1-78330-032-7 / 9781783300327
Zustand	Neuware