Library Management for the Digital Age

A New Paradigm

Julie Todaro

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781442230163
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This revolutionary introduction to library management is the first conceived in and written for a digital age. Julie Todaro, one of America's leading management experts, posits a new paradigm for planning, administering, and assessing library services. She explains each facet of administering both "old" (physical) and "new" (virtual) libraries.

Library Management for the Digital Age covers
hierarchies, policies, communication, working relationships, facilities, human resources,settings, customer services, budgeting, emergency management, appendixes including model positions descriptions, interview questions, evaluation forms, and other necessary management tools.
Each chapter concludes with an illustration of the old-to-new paradigm shift in that particular aspect of management as well as concise case studies that illustrate the real-world nature of the shift and discussion questions to facilitate active learning.

A platinum-quality editorial board comprised of both LIS faculty and expert library managers has reviewed this book in order to ensure authority.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Twenty-First-Century Management in Libraries
• Chapter 1: Classic Management vs. New Management
• Chapter 2: Preparing and Maintaining the New Manager
• Chapter 3: “Managing” New Employees/Staff/Human Resources/Stakeholders
• Chapter 4: New Management of Change
• Chapter 5: New Managers Designing New Organizations
• Chapter 6: Management Infrastructure Documents in New Organizations
• Chapter 7: Managing New Services and Resources
• Chapter 8: Managing Those Outside the “Sphere”
• Chapter 9: New Management “in Action” Communication
• Chapter 10: New Managers within Classic and New Organizations
• Chapter 11: New Managers in Classic and New Facilities and Environments
• Chapter 12: New “Landscapes” for Library and Information Settings
• Chapter 13: Managing the Balance to Meet New Constituent/Customer Expectations
• Chapter 14: Accountability, Measurement, and Assessment in New Management Organizations
• Chapter 15: New Budgeting with (Mostly) Classic Budgeting Issues
• Chapter 16: Emergency Management Roles and Responsibilities of New Managers
• Part II: The Cases
• Introduction to the Case Method
• Case 1: A Difficult Path of Moving Up and Out
• Case 2: Building Your Own Management Training Program
• Case 3: Rumor Has It
• Case 4: Do You Have Any Change on You?
• Case 5: Racking Up the Library Pool Table
• Case 6: Manuals, Handbooks, Policies, Procedures, Budgets, Minutes, and Plans, Oh My!
• Case 7: What’s Old Is New—If the Money Is There
• Case 8: But Enough about Me—What Do You Think about Me?
• Case 9: Suffering from Past Mistakes
• Case 10: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
• Case 11: A Fixer Upper
• Case 12: Penny’s Partners Proliferate due to Punctual, Prioritized, and Positive Planning
• Case 13: Keeping Up with the “Joneses”
• Case 14: Torture the Data
• Case 15: Matching Data to Data Requests
• Case 16: Building Tomorrow’s Future on Today’s Expertise
• Appendixes
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• About the Author