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MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

FORTHCOMING
FORTHCOMING
Library and Information The School

Center Management Library Manager

Ninth Edition | BARBARA B. MORAN Surviving and Thriving
AND CLAUDIA J. MORNER

Strategic planning. Facilities Sixth Edition
BLANCHE WOOLLS
management. Leadership, ethics,
AND SHARON COATNEY
communication, and motivation.
Human resources and staffing. This sixth edition of
Change, library development, Library Unlimited’s
and innovation. Marketing. classic school library
Measurement and evaluation. management text
Fiscal responsibility and control. describes new
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include various real-world examples from international settings librarian
to help readers understand and conceptualize the place of the • Newly updated to offer additional insight into the
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ends with two helpful sections that present numerous examples and specific information for school administration
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• Contains new discussion topics and case studies and offers
supplementary online materials
BLANCHE WOOLLS is director and professor emerita from
the iSchool at San Jose State Univsersity.
SHARON COATNEY is a former school librarian for Blue
Valley Schools in Kansas and an acquisitions editor for
Libraries Unlimited.

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