Crash Course in Library Supervision Meeting the Key Players

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Management & Administration -- General

Reviews:

• Written for almost any librarian with a new job, this book is filled with practical advice for those starting that new postition, even if you are moving from one job to another. How do you meet people? Establish relationships? Understand the organization? Get your program underway? While they may have addresses some of these skills in library school, this book is a good refresher to get started on the right foot.
  —Teacher Librarian April 2008
• [H]andy and readable primer for libarians new to supervision.
  —Info Career Trends April 30, 2008
• Chapters describe how a library might analyze its community as well as assess and evaluate its collection. Other chapters address collection development policies, statistics, budget, selection, acquisition, reviewing sources, the publishing industry, collection maintenance, mending and preserving, and promotion and marketing. The final chapter discusses complaints, challenges, and intellectual-freedom issues. There is no bibliography, but several helpful Web sites are mentioned in the text. Recommended for all public library collections.
  —Booklist/Professional Reading April 15, 2008

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Settling In: Getting to Know You
• Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Staff: Listen and Learn
• Chapter 3: Managing Personnel: Tips to Make Your Life Easier
• Chapter 4: Personnel Laws: You Can't Become Familiar with These Too Quickly or Too Soon!
• Chapter 5: Hiring, Firing, and Other Good Stuff: It Happens Even if You're New!
• Chapter 6: Friends and Volunteers
• Chapter 7: "Managing" the Board: Who They Are, and How to Build and Maintain Consensus-A Tricky Tightrope
• Chapter 8: Your Customers: Your Reason to Exist
• Chapter 9: Key People in the Community-No Library is an Island
• Chapter 10: Managing Change: Look before You Leap!
• Glossary
• Resources
• Index

PDF Catalogs:

LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf