Jan 02 2009
Landau, Herbert. The Small Public Library Survival Guide: Thriving on Less. ALA. 2008. 159p. ISBN 9780838935750. $38.00/$34.20 ALA members.
The economic distress of our country is the subject of front-page headlines and political debates. Jobs are being cut and businesses are closing their doors. What is the fate of libraries in this time of financial duress? [...]
Nov 03 2008
by Kim Dority
Rethinking Information Careers covers career alternatives and strategies for information professionals. Find ideas for your own career path and learn to think more broadly about what information work entails. Recent columns address:
Making the leap: transferring your skills to a new industry
Managing up, down, and across
About the Author
Founder and president of G. K. Dority [...]
Nov 03 2008
Stanley, Mary J. Managing library employees; a how-to-do-it manual. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2008. 247p. ISBN 1555706282. $59.95
Mary J. Stanley’s Managing Library Employees provides a broad overview of the complex Human Resources issues and practical orientation to the menu of Human Resource tasks facing contemporary library managers. Stanley provides a strong general description and discussion of [...]
Sep 02 2008
Intner, Sheila S., with Peggy Johnson. Fundamentals of Technical Services Management (ALA Fundamentals Series). Chicago: American Library Association, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8389-953-9. 158p. $42 ($37.80 ALA members)
This introduction to the principles of managing a technical services (TS) department is a quick — yet dense — read. It is written for the new TS manager, although any [...]
Jul 01 2007
by Allen Stuart Gaetjens
I took my first library job because I wanted to stay in Champaign, Illinois after graduating with a B.S. in Psychology. The civil service office said the library hired 3-5 people in Library Clerk II positions each week. So, I took the test, interviewed and accepted an acquisitions [...]
Jul 01 2007
by Pam North
When we embark upon something new - a journey, a lifestyle change, or a new career - we have a perception of the level of stability we expect, the level of stress we will encounter, and the amount of reward we will gain. Sometimes these perceptions are right on the [...]
Jul 01 2006
Curran, Charles and Lewis Miller. Guide to Library and Information Agency Management. Scarecrow, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5115-6. $45.00.
Curran and Miller describe this book as a field guide to “information places.” Like a natural history guidebook, it provides a descriptive overview of what one is likely to encounter in a particular place - in [...]
Mar 01 2006
Whitmell, Vicki, ed. Staff Planning in a Time of Demographic Change. Scarecrow, 2005. ISBN 0810852152. $40.
Whitmell brings together some of the more influential names in the library field, in a concise text. Clear throughout these essays is the theme that library staff is both aging and changing, and that the old [...]
Jan 01 2006
Prentice, Ann. Managing in the Information Age. Scarecrow, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5206-3. $50.00.
Prentice provides an inclusive introduction to management principles as they can be applied in today’s libraries. Though the book is basic enough to be used as a text in library management classes, its later chapters are practical enough to serve [...]
Sep 01 2005
by Melissa Rabey
When you’re in library school, you take classes that are useful and pertinent to your future career - at least, that’s the theory. Sometimes, you are simply required to take a class, one that you don’t think you’ll need. Perhaps you’re a future children’s librarian, stuck in a cataloging [...]