Putting library management into the unique context of the not-for-profit world, this work offers you invaluable guidance on how to manage your library effectively.
Managing a library presents a significantly different challenge than managing a small business, a corporation, or even a school or charity organization. To be effective managers and excel in their careers, librarians must understand their unique position in the social landscape and leverage that role to become influential leaders. This guide shows librarians how to make the most of their inherent skills and develop new leadership strengths in order to become better library managers, advance their careers, and sustain their libraries―in spite of changing environments and shrinking budgets. 
The book examines many facets of managerial leadership, defines what managerial leadership is, and describes how to assess and increase leadership skills. The chapters also identify the constraints unique to libraries and explain how you can develop positive relationships with government boards, turn a vision into a practical strategic plan, and exercise fiscal control. You will gain invaluable knowledge about fund raising, developing political skills, advocacy and lobbying, and legal and ethical concerns, specifically in the library environment. The final section of the book is devoted to people skills―understanding yourself and others, developing staff, collaboration, negotiation, meetings and presentations, and creating future success.
 • Supplies an insightful career guide for library managers and administrators as well as those who wish to become managers or administrators
• Provides practical advice and tools customized for library managers looking to excel in their careers and help their libraries by becoming better leaders
• Presents information that is specifically for library management in the context of not-for-profit, educational operations rather than offering business-oriented advice
• Useful as a text or as supplementary reading in management and advanced management courses

Managerial Leadership for Librarians: Thriving in the Public and Nonprofit World

Politics & Social Sciences

Evans, G. Edward

Christie, Holland

Social Sciences

Libraries Unlimited

Covering every essential topic ranging from circulation and literacy instruction to reference and security, this benchmark text provides an up-to-date, broadly based view of library public service and its functions.
Supplying essential, foundational reading for students of library public services as well as an up-to-date overview for practitioners who wish to refresh their knowledge or acquaint themselves with a new area of responsibility, this book's broad and solid coverage will benefit anyone concerned with developing or maintaining the public face of the library. A revision and expansion of Libraries Unlimited's Introduction to Library Public Services: Seventh Edition, this edition has new chapters covering such topics as e-resources, collections, print and other media, and facilities and funding. Additionally, every chapter has been substantially updated and reorganized to better reflect the role of technology in library services today.
The book begins with background information on public services in libraries and an analysis of the library's public service philosophy. Then, the authors delve into staffing and assessment of services, moving logically to major functional areas of public services―reference, instruction, document delivery, circulation and reserves, collections, programming, safety and security issues, and facilities and funding. Real-life anecdotes from public, academic, and school libraries illustrate principles and concepts throughout the book. For each topic, the authors detail its role and philosophy, and offer key points to remember, references, and lists for further reading.
 • Covers all essential services of the library through completely reorganized and updated content that reflects the role of changing technologies in today's libraries
• Presents many new chapters that address the topics of print collections, media collections, e-resources, computer access, social media, legal issues, ethical issues, funding and other fiscal issues, and the library as place

Library Programs and Services: The Fundamentals (Library and Information Science Text Series)

Saponaro, Margaret Zarnosky

Sinwell, Carol

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