Library and Information Center Management

Library and Information Center Management: Eighth Edition continues to be an essential textbook that provides a complete introduction to library management. It supplies a comprehensive, one-volume overview of all the functions of management specifically applied to the modern library environment.

This latest revised and updated edition begins with introductory chapters that discuss the roles of library managers in the past and in the present, explain why library staff must rethink their purpose, and document the inadequacy of management techniques that once seemed appropriate. In addition to discussing key planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling strategies, the book also provides chapters on marketing, facilities management, and fundraising. The final chapter provides young managers with invaluable guidance and addresses the challenges of succeeding in management without the benefit of decades of experience.

Barbara B. Moran, PhD, is Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she served as dean from 1990 to 1998. Moran is coauthor of five previous editions of Libraries Unlimited's Library and Information Center Management textbook and is also the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and three other books on various aspects of management and leadership.

Robert D. Stueart, PhD, is professor and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, MA. He has served as president of ALISE and the former Library Education Division of ALA and on the executive board of both ALA and IFLA. He has been coauthor of this textbook since the first edition in 1977.

Claudia J. Morner, PhD, was dean and professor emerita of the University Library at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. She serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston., MA. Morner holds a doctorate in higher education from Boston College.