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MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW

The Evaluation Managerial Leadership Leading in the New
and Measurement for Librarians Academic Library

of Library Services Thriving in the Public BECKY ALBITZ, CHRISTINE AVERY,
and Nonprofit World AND DIANE ZABEL, EDITORS
Second Edition
JOSEPH R. MATTHEWS G. EDWARD EVANS AND
HOLLAND CHRISTIE

May 2017, 195pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-5113-1
October 2017, 375pp, 7x10 $55.00, £43.00, €50.00
Print: 978-1-4408-5536-8 October 2017, 360pp, 7x10 eBook: 978-1-4408-5114-8
$65.00, £50.00, €60.00 Print: 978-1-4408-4170-5
eBook: 978-1-4408-5537-5 $65.00, £50.00, €60.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-4171-2 Providing perspectives of practitioners
who are early- and mid-career librarians
This guide provides library directors, as well as highly seasoned professionals,
managers, and administrators in all Putting library management into the this book offers invaluable advice
types of libraries with complete and up- unique context of the not-for-profit regarding leadership that will help
to-date instructions on how to evaluate world, this work offers you invaluable academic librarians of all experience
library services in order to improve guidance on how to manage your library levels to surmount the confounding
them. effectively. issues they face and to overcome new
FEATURES FEATURES challenges.
• Helps librarians to thoroughly • Supplies an insightful career guide for FEATURES
examine their libraries’ services library managers and administrators • Introduces academic librarians and
toward making improvements as well as those who wish to become students to key management issues
• Explains the most effective ways of managers or administrators and provides effective ways to
conducting library measurement and • Provides practical advice and tools address them
evaluation, covering qualitative and customized for library managers
quantitative tools, data analysis, and looking to excel in their careers and • Demonstrates how qualities of
leadership can be cultivated for career
specific methodologies for measuring help their libraries by becoming better
and assessing specific services leaders success
• Enables librarians to answer with • Presents information that is • Provides up-to-date guidance on
authority the question “what specifically for library management leadership skills as they apply in
the academic library setting, skills
difference do we make?” in the context of not-for-profit, which may not be covered in
• Offers a highly readable and clear educational operations rather than traditional textbooks for courses in
treatment of a topic of paramount offering business-oriented advice library management and academic
importance, but that librarians often • Useful as a text or as supplementary librarianship
find difficult reading in management and advanced
management courses
ALSO OF INTEREST
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Museums: Harnessing the Force That Drives
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