Library Administration and Resources

Contents Preface. 1. Introduction to library administration. 2. Strategies for documents preservation. 3. Importance of library administration. 4. Automatic and human indexing. 5. Administrative functions. 6. Libraries and education. 7. Motivation in libraries. 8. Planning of administration in library. 9. Collection of materials. 10. Books and libraries. 11. Social orientation. 12. Documentation and information in library. 13. Information resources. Index. Library administrators are continually faced with situations in which they must make decisions and choose among alternatives. Some decisions relate to strategic planning of the long range objectives of the library whether and how they should be changed what policies are required to achieve them and what effects they will have. Others relate to operational planning where administrative decisions must be made about allocations of resources. Some simply relate to the management of specific tasks. To date most of these decisions are made by the librarian on the basis of experience and his resulting intuitive judgement. The generally high quality of library service in the face of severe budgetary restraints is attributable to the competence of the librarian. 288 pp.…