Library Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness
Library Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness

Author: Ernest R. DeProspo

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of ideas related to library performance yet assembled. It brings together noted researchers and successful library directors and educators who have extended the landmark findings and efforts of their mentor and friend, Ernest DeProsp. The editors give a historical account of contemporary measurement activities; suggest methodologies for measuring performance; offer viewpoints on planning, goal-setting and validity; and comment on problems associated with planning, one of the major tools of measurement. Readers of the book will develop informed opinions about planning, a practice that when entered into unaware can enslave an organization in endless data gathering routines and tax their endurance beyond reasonable points. Thought-provoking comments on the directions taken, and not taken, by library thinkers challenge the reader to speculate about current library-think.

Evaluation of Reference Services
Evaluation of Reference Services

Author: Linda S Katz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1317951271

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Library authorities address the increasing significance of reference services and the increasing need for evaluation of those services to further ensure professionalism and efficiency.

Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Libraries
Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Libraries

Author: Donald E. Riggs

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780866569408

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Learn how you can use creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship as powerful forces for positive and productive change benefiting staff and users. Given the pressures of automation, budget issues, and staff development concerns, creative thinking in the library profession is a necessity, not a luxury. For the first time in a single volume, librarians share specific, practical ways in which managers can release creativity in themselves and their staffs, in order to find solutions to new problems, as well as new ways to address old challenges. The contributors to Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship also describe how they used creative thinking to develop a very successful fund raising plan, significantly reduce the risks of developing new services in library networks, take part in effective communication between library educators and practitioners to ensure that library science students are better prepared for the field, and much more.

Planning for Library Services
Planning for Library Services

Author: Charles R. McClure

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780917724848

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Planning for Library Services assists library and information service managers in initiating, improving, and sustaining good planning practices in their organizations. It provides practicing librarians with a guide to assist in their planning methods for increased library effectiveness and promotes a better understanding of the concepts, benefits, potential problems, and processes related to planning.

State Library Services and Issues
State Library Services and Issues

Author: Charles R. McClure

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780893913175

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This book provides an analytical overview of key issues affecting the effectiveness of state library activities and services. If offers specific suggestions, recommendations and strategies by which future challenges related to state librarianship can be faced successfully.

Evaluating the School Library Media Center
Evaluating the School Library Media Center

Author: Nancy Everhart Ph.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1998-08-15

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0313022674

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Everhart provides practical guidelines and ready-to-use forms for evaluating a school library media center, as well as important results derived in other studies. She includes qualitative and quantitative techniques for the areas of curriculum, personnel, facilities, collections, usage, and technology. She also gives step-by-step instructions on how to create in-house surveys, conduct interviews, and use observation to gather useful data. Conduct research, collect statistics, and evaluate your program with this useful resource. Everhart provides practical guidelines and ready-to-use forms for evaluating a school library media center, as well as important results derived in other studies. She includes qualitative and quantitative techniques for the areas of curriculum, personnel, facilities, collections, usage, and technology. She also gives step-by-step instructions on how to create in-house surveys, conduct interviews, and use observation to gather useful data. For example, there are directions on how to assess information literacy with rubrics. In addition, each chapter gives detailed references, a list of further readings, applicable Web sites, and dissertations. A quick and easy guide to justifying and supporting your SLMC operations and effectiveness, this book is invaluable to all school library media specialists. It will also be of interest to school library media supervisors and researchers.