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This popular textbook is a one-stop toolkit for teaching management in library and information science programs.
Understanding the nature of the modern workplace is essential to an information professional's career success. Staying true to Barbara B. Moran and Claudia J. Morner's classic work, new authors Ericka J. Patillo and Rebecca B. Vargha offer a timely shift in focus.
Incorporating suggestions from users of the previous edition of Library and Information Center Management, Patillo and Vargha organize the book by managerial functions, using an organizational behavior framework. This textbook teaches all members of a library organization how to understand themselves and what motivates them to work; how to get along with and work with others in the workplace; and how the organization, as a system, works, including its challenges and opportunities. Its six sections include an introduction to library and information center management, followed by sections on individuals in organizations, leading, organizational behavior, planning and evaluating, and managing libraries and information agencies.
A timely new chapter is dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, supporting the infusion of DEI principles throughout the text, and more case studies are provided for real-world learning.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Part One: Introduction
1. Managing Information Organizations
2. Applying an Organizational Behavior Framework to Library and Information Center Management
3. Diversity and Inclusion in Information Organizations
Part Two: Individuals in Organizations
4. Understanding the Human Element in the Organization
5. Personality and Values
6. Perceptions and Individual Decisionmaking
Part Three: Leading
7. Professional Ethics
8. Motivation in the Workplace
9. Interpersonal and Group Behavior
10. Managing Groups and Teams
Part Four: Organizational Behavior
11. Organizational Communication
12. Organizational Leadership
13. How Organizations Behave and Their Structures
14. Change: The Innovative Process
15. Organizational Culture
Part Five: Planning and Evaluating
16. Strategy and Policy
17. Evaluating Organizational Performance
18. Issues in Human Resource Management
Part Six: Managing Libraries and Information Agencies
19. Library and Information Center Managerial Functions
20. Marketing and Information Services
21. Staffing the Information Center
22. Onboarding and Staff Development
23. Library Finance and Budgets
24. Library Fund-raising (Development) and Grant Writing
Index
Product details
| Published | 25 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 10th |
| Pages | 592 |
| ISBN | 9798216170686 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited |
| Series | Library and Information Science Text Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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