Murder at the Big Store

Mayo, Diane

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

St.Martin's Press

How long does it take to . . . catalog a book?
This latest entry in the PLA Results series will help you to answer that question and others you have related to the output and performance of your staff. By analyzing, in a systematic way, how long work activities take and then assigning steps to each unit of work, you will have a quantifiable measure of the output of your staff. The only book of its kind, Staffing for Results equips you to not only gauge performance and output but also build on what you learn to maximize and even increase productivity. Using common public library tasks as the context, Staffing for Results walks you through the process of measuring work, identifying best practices, assigning costs to each activity, analyzing resource allocation, and communicating results. With more than 20 figures and workforms that you can customize for your setting, six easy-to-follow chapters provide step-by-step guidance on how to ensure that your library is optimizing its resources. By the end of the process, you?ll be able to answer questions such as:
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<li>Who is doing the work?</li>
<li>How long does it take?</li>
<li>What steps are required?</li>
<li>Can the work process be streamlined?</li>
<li>Is this the best use of people available?</li>
<li>Do we need more staff?</li>
<li>Can support staff handle a job done by a library professional?</li>
<li>How can the data be communicated to support needed changes?</li>
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Giving you tools from the experts of PLA to get the job done, this indispensable guide will help you to show and prove results.

Staffing for Results: A Guide to Working Smarter

Politics & Social Sciences

Goodrich, Jeanne

Social Sciences

ALA Editions

To help meet the challenge of using technology effectively, The Public Library Association offers a comprehensive and practical guide to preparing a technology plan. Wired for the Future aids in preparing a plan that positions the library to meet its objectives for the community, its staff, and its best future. Authors Mayo and Nelson provide the raw materials to build, implement, and evaluate a workable technology plan. All the necessary tools are provided to determine technology needs, identify technology options, select a technology infrastructure, and implement the plan. Reproducible workforms enable librarians to customize key steps to specific situations. Technotes explain various technologies and applications available to libraries.

Wired for the Future: Developing Your Library Technology Plan

Nelson, Sandra S

Computers & Technology

American Library Association

Successfully managing a library means doing the right things right all the time. If a library's resources are being channeled to objectives that have little or nothing to do with the library's mission and goals for its community, the library is doing the wrong things right and probably will be unable to meet its real goals.
Every public library, regardless of size, has four important resources to help meet its mission and achieve its goals in the community. Staff, the library's collection, technology, and the library facility itself all need to be effectively managed for the library to achieve the right results.
Using the Planning for Results planning process as the springboard, the Public Library Association has developed a new tool to enable librarians to allocate and reallocate to help the library achieve its goals and meet community needs.
Managing for Results requires librarians to take a proactive approach to marshaling and managing all of the library's resources effectively. Using this planning guide, librarians will be able to identify their key resources, make choices among different priorities, and assign resources to achieve results.
The key to successfully allocating resources is first knowing what you want to accomplish. Most of a library's resources are already allocated to some objective or another. However, Managing for Results forces you to evaluate whether resources are being used to achieve the real objectives of the library in the community. This may mean reallocating resources, or evaluating library goals to be sure that the library's resources are used to ensure that the library achieves its mission, serves the community, and gives patrons what they need and want.
The numerous workforms are designed to enable librarians to identify, collect, and analyze the information needed to correctly allocate resources. They focus on the factors needed to allocate resources, such as the number of professional staff needed, how to budget for library materials, the amount of space needed for programs, and the type and amount of software and hardware needed for the community served.
Using the workforms and the guidelines, librarians can focus on their specific library's needs and objectives. The process outlined in Managing for Results can be used regardless of the planning process used, the size of the facility, and the library's mission.

Managing for Results: Effective Resource Allocation for Public Libraries (PLA Results)

Altman, Ellen

Nelson, Sandra

Reference

Murder at Bean & Beluga

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Permanent Pr Pub Co

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