Library Performance and Service Competition
Library Performance and Service Competition

Author: Larry Nash White

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 178063126X

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A practice-driven and proven resource for library administrators of all types of libraries. The work describes how the library can identify the service environment factors impacting customers; strategic needs; identify library competitors; strategic abilities and service environment impacts; and use the combined results to develop proactive competitive responses that drive the service environment instead of reacting to the service environment. These strategic competitive responses would allow the library to increase the value of its service impact and effectiveness while increasing customer appreciation and the libraries advantage in the competitive service environment. - Written by a highly knowledgeable practitioner from the library field - Experience of the author (library and for-profit management experience) provides a hybrid/blended view of library competition and management responses from both the library and for-profit management worlds - Written to applicable to all types of libraries

The Entrepreneurial Librarian
The Entrepreneurial Librarian

Author: Mary Krautter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0786490128

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The old image of an entrepreneur as a scrappy, independent risk-taker has been replaced by the reality of individuals incorporating innovative ideas in more traditional settings. This collection of essays illustrates how librarians are infusing entrepreneurial principles in a variety of arenas, including public, private, academic, and special libraries. It chronicles how entrepreneurial librarians are flourishing in the digital age, advocating social change, responding to patron demands, designing new services, and developing exciting fundraising programs. Applying new business models to traditional services, they eagerly embrace entrepreneurship in response to patrons' demands, funding declines, changing resource formats, and other challenges. By documenting the current state of entrepreneurship in libraries, this volume upends the public image of librarians as ill-suited to risky or creative ventures and places them instead on the cutting edge of innovations in the field.

Managing Information Services
Managing Information Services

Author: Jo Bryson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1317101561

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This fourth edition of Jo Bryson's highly regarded Managing Information Services has been thoroughly revised with an emphasis on innovation. Operating in a digital era, libraries must innovate to survive and grow. This means librarians having radical ideas which challenge the status quo, shifting strategic directions to change the way services are managed, and developing new skills and knowledge. Challenges include developing new uses for floorspace, where shelving is being replaced by mobile networking, and new practices and procedures for managing new products such as e-books and self-service. Libraries can achieve long term sustainability by information managers having more creative responses and developing innovative thinking. Essential reading for information students, this text also serves as a comprehensive and detailed reference on the key management topics for information service managers.

Advances in Library Administration and Organization
Advances in Library Administration and Organization

Author: Delmus E. Williams

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1781903131

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The book will examine the challenges that working administrators face and discusses how to enable them to look more closely at their operations and to reconsider how to develop people and the organizations in which they work. As in previous volumes of Advances in Library Administration and Organization, the studies outlined in the chapters of Vo

The Public Library Service
The Public Library Service

Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Section of Public Libraries

Publisher: NBD Biblion Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9783598218279

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The 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.

Delivering Satisfaction and Service Quality
Delivering Satisfaction and Service Quality

Author: Peter Hernon

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780838907894

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Good customers expect excellent service. Increasingly, library customers are looking to online services instead of to the library for information. For every library that wants to win satisfied customers and bring those that have strayed back into the library, here are proven tools to assess needs and improve service.

Marketing Library and Information Services II
Marketing Library and Information Services II

Author: Dinesh K. Gupta

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 311028104X

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With contributions from library and information professionals (practitioners, researchers, faculty members, consultants, and others), Marketing Library and Information Services: A Global Outlook highlights a variety of exemplary LIS marketing practices and efforts from around the globe. The following broad topics are explored: changing marketing concepts; marketing library and information services in different countries; marketing library and information services in different kind of libraries; web-based LIS marketing, etc.

USEFUL ABBREVIATIONS FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (NET / SET / PET and Competitive Examination)
USEFUL ABBREVIATIONS FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (NET / SET / PET and Competitive Examination)

Author: DR. TUSHAR M. PATIL

Publisher: Ashok Yakkaldevi

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1716590205

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What is an abbreviation? Abbreviations have a long history, created so that spelling out a whole word could be avoided. This might be done to save time and space, and also to provide secrecy. In both Greece and Rome the reduction of words to single letters was common. In Roman inscriptions, "Words were commonly abbreviated by using the initial letter or letters of words, and most inscriptions have at least one abbreviation". However, "some could have more than one meaning, depending on their context. An abbreviation, on the other hand, is also a way to shorten a phrase but with a slight difference. In general, abbreviations tend to shorten the word or phrase being referenced by literally shortening the word but not creating a new one. So for example, shortening the word “avenue” to “ave.” is an abbreviation rather than an acronym because “ave.” does not form a new enunciable word. Similarly, shortening the names of the months, such as “December” to “Dec.” is also an abbreviation because when reading “Dec.” out loud, you would just say the full term “December.”