Library Management: Volume 17 Issue 1

Maturity, leadership and generational change in libraries

Joanne R. Euster

Librarians tend to enter their chosen field at a later age than other professionals. Among other factors, this leads to an extended “professional adolescence”, which is also…

Contracting out in the public sector ‐ issues and implications

Diana Grimwood‐Jones

Traces the development of contracting out library and information services in the public sector. Looks at perceived benefits of contracting out, and notes some of the key issues…

The amount of actions needed for shelving and reshelving

L. Egghe

Discusses the number of actions (or time) needed to organize library shelves. Studies two types of problems: organizing a library shelf out of an unordered pile of books, and…

Quality management: the way to improve Latin American public libraries?

Waldomiro C.S. Vergueiro

Focuses on public libraries in Latin America as one important means of information provision at the end of the twentieth century, discussing how they can improve their…

The universal library report

Maurice B. Line

Libraries everywhere have many features and problems in common. Offers a consultancy report that is more or less universally applicable. The library is insufficiently proactive…

Picking up the pieces: an organizational profile of the Library Disaster Centre

Diana Polloni, Barney Harkins

Businesses which lose their paper documents in a disaster face tremendous losses and potential closure. Document SOS specializes in restoring paper materials damaged by fire…