Financial and Cost Management for Libraries and Information Services
Author: Stephen A. Roberts
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-02-07
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 3110963175
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Author: Stephen A. Roberts
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-02-07
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 3110963175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Osuigwe, Nkem Ekene
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2019-11-22
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1799811182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformation in today’s modernized world has become much more attainable with the use of technology. A resource that has fallen victim to this are library services. What was once a staple of knowledge and communication has failed to keep pace with recent advancements in information service providers. Library practitioners need to learn how to manage change, build influence, and adapt their services to remain relevant within local communities. Libraries can continue to play a key role in future aspects of information provision, but proper research is a necessity. Managing and Adapting Library Information Services for Future Users is a collection of innovative research that encapsulates practices, concepts, ideas, and proposals that would chart pathways for libraries of all types to envision and understand how to thrive and remain relevant in the competitive information provision environment. It is expected to motivate librarians and information scientists to probe further into how libraries would better serve user communities of the 21st century who have options of accessing information from sources other than from libraries. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, human design thinking, and alternative finance, this book is ideally designed for librarians, information specialists, architects, data scientists, researchers, community development practitioners, policymakers, faculty members, and students seeking current research on emerging advancements in library optimization.
Author: Carly Wiggins Searcy
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838917190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA recent study showed that only 53 percent of projects come in on budget and only 49 percent on schedule. So what does it take to be an on-budget, on-time finisher? Successful project management may seem like a quixotic pursuit, but it doesn't have to be.
Author: John J. Huber
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781555707323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrologue : the power of a lean transformation -- Strategy one. Recognize that service performance is the key to customer retention -- Strategy two. Transform your change-resistant culture -- Strategy three. Understand how delivery service chains drive your library's performance -- Strategy four. Align your performance metrics with your delivery service chains -- Strategy five. Transform your new book delivery service chain -- Strategy six. Transform your customer holds/reserves delivery chain of service -- Strategy seven. Transform your cost control philosophy to a lean service improvement philosophy -- Strategy eight. Transform your overall library service performance metrics -- Strategy nine. Transform your digital research delivery service chain -- Strategy ten. Transform your delivery service chain from a "push" to a "pull" philosophy -- Strategy eleven. Think lean before the concrete is poured -- Afterword : lean continuous improvement -- Appendix : more lean tools.
Author: Stephen Andrew Roberts
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvia Webb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1351227165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreviously titled Making a Charge for Library and Information Services, Fee Based Information Services provides an examination of charging for library and information services and the possible implications that this might bring to the profession. A number of extenisve case studies are given to illustrate precedents and points of best practice.
Author: Duncan McKay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 1135475741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is a concise guide to financial planning, with definitions of financial terms and the key processes involved, which also provides tips on how to present your budget most effectively to secure funding. As pressures of business increasingly affect all information functions, it has become ever more important to be able to justify the costs involved in running any form of information function. This second edition covers budgetary implications related to developments in information source provision.
Author: Shiela Corrall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1135477493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth analysis of strategic management concepts and techniques and how they can be usefully applied to the planning and delivery of information services. Offers practical guidance on the strategy process from appraisal and assessment through to implementation and improvement. Examines the environment in which planning takes place, and financial management issues.Annotated references to management and information service literature.Includes further reading and index. Sheila Corrall is the University Librarian at the University of Reading. She has worked as an information specialist, manager and consultant in public, and national academic libraries. At the British Library, her roles included policy and planning support to top management and responsibility for a portfolio of revenue-earning services in science, technology, patents and business information.
Author: Association of Research Libraries
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Section of Public Libraries
Publisher: NBD Biblion Publishers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9783598218279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.