Managing technical services in the 90's

• Other Authors: Racine, Drew (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Haworth Press 1991
• Subjects: Technical services (Libraries) > Management
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• Item Description: "Has also been published as Journal of library administration, volume 15, numbers 1/2, 1991"--Tp verso
• Physical Description: 150 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 1560241667

In this optimistic new book, librarians examine how changes in society, the information industry, and libraries require iconoclastic thinking and acting on the part of the information specialists to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that are present to better the profession, the professionals, and services to their patrons. The focus of the volume is on managing functions typically associated with technical services. Recent changes to library functions such as the changed roles of managers and the necessity for fund-raising as a method of obtaining basic operating funds are discussed fully. Running across the varied chapters are recurring themes such as the need for flexibility in staffing and organizational structures, looking at the traditional in new ways, and convergence and union.