Catalysts for Change: Managing Libraries in the 1990s

Learn more about innovative management techniques library administrators can use to adapt to the rapidly changing information environment. Catalysts for Change features the perspectives of library practitioners as well as other higher education professionals on using innovative management techniques. The book includes practical discussions of Total Quality Management, team management, the impact of gender differences, managing an older work force, and educational needs for the 1990s. Librarians will find these techniques and solutions helpful for dealing with change. They will benefit from the case studies and practical overview from professionals who have already experienced change in their own libraries. Through this valuable book, library administrators will find the best methods for adapting management strategies to the major political upheaval, economic reprioritizing, and organizational restructuring that has been characteristic of this decade. Some of the important topics covered by the contributors include: fostering the democratization of the workplace and the development of the staff through empowerment proactive, assertive, and collaborative roles of libraries in the scholarly communication process library management education that prepares professionals both to anticipate change and to bring about change in their institutions in response to societal needs and shifts managing the academic library through teamwork the possible impacts and implications of female leadership on the library profession organizational change in research libraries older workers in technical services the role of the collection development librarian in the 1990s and beyond using the budget as a planning toolCatalysts for Change demonstrates how to approach library services in ways that are a result of a “revenue diet,” technological advances, and changing philosophies of library constituents. Practitioners in the library field, middle managers and administrators in libraries, and beginning level management classes in library schools will find essential information in this book to help them create library management strategies to adapt to the turbulent changes in the library profession.