Management Functions and Librarians
Abstract
This monograph presents an outline of traditional management functions: strategic planning, human resource management, financial management, marketing, operations management, technological innovation management and the management of change. In separate chapters, each of these functions is first set out in general terms with emphasis on tested key issues, techniques, and the different aspects of the managerial role. Each chapter then analyses the function specifically in terms of the changing nature of librarianship and information services. It is suggested that librarians should be adopting a higher management profile and, with experience of IT coupled with traditional skills in selecting and organising information, that they are well placed for initiating as well as responding to change.
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Citation
Burrows, B. and Bakewell, K.G.B. (1989), "Management Functions and Librarians", Library Management, Vol. 10 No. 4/5, pp. 2-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000000818
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1989, MCB UP Limited