Library Management for the Digital Age

Julie Todaro – a librarian for over 35 years – has worked in public and academic libraries and has been a children’s librarian, a community college librarian, a community college dean, a library educator, a consultant and trainer and has mentored librarians in all types of libraries.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I. Twenty-First Century Management in LibrariesChapter 1. Classic Management vs. New ManagementChapter 2. Preparing and Maintaining the New ManagerChapter 3. “Managing” New Employees/Staff/Human Resources/StakeholdersChapter 4. New Management of ChangeChapter 5. New Managers Designing New OrganizationsChapter 6. Management Infrastructure Documents in New OrganizationsChapter 7. Managing New Services and ResourcesChapter 8. Managing Those Outside the “Sphere”Chapter 9. New Management “in Action” CommunicationChapter 10. New Managers within Classic and New OrganizationsChapter 11. New Managers in Classic and New Facilities and EnvironmentsChapter 12. New “Landscapes” for Library and Information SettingsChapter 13. Managing the Balance to Meet New Constituent/Customer ExpectationsChapter 14. Accountability, Measurement, and Assessment in New Management OrganizationsChapter 15. New Budgeting with (Mostly) Classic Budgeting IssuesChapter 16. Emergency Management Roles and Responsibilities of New ManagersPART II: The CasesIntroduction to the Case MethodCase 1. A Difficult Path of Moving Up and OutCase 2. Building Your Own Management Training Program Case 3. Rumor Has ItCase 4. Do You Have Any Change On You?Case 5. Racking Up the Library Pool TableCase 6. Manuals, Handbooks, Policies, Procedures, Budgets, Minutes and Plans, Oh My!Case 7. What’s Old is New – if the Money is ThereCase 8. But Enough About Me, What Do YOU Think About Me?Case 9. Suffering from Past MistakesCase 10. What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt YouCase 11. A Fixer UpperCase 12. Penny’s Partners Proliferate due to Punctual, Prioritized, and Positive PlanningCase 13. Keeping Up With the “Joneses”Case 14. Torture the DataCase 15. Matching Data to Data RequestsCase 16. Building Tomorrow’s Future on Today’s ExpertiseAppendicesAppendix A. Annotated Master List of “Indispensable” ResourcesAppendix B. Examples of ParadigmsAppendix C. Additional Paradigm ShiftsIndexAbout the Author

This book would be an excellent resource for library school students as well as a good refresher for library managers and directors. It contains useful case studies and a comparison of paradigms. The author illustrates the difference between past management methods and those that will apply to libraries in the future. It also shows that more leadership skills need to be incorporated into library management training and that the path for new librarians to become the next managers and leaders of the profession is always growing more complex. Flexibility is very important as new services continue to pop up and old services are dropped. Switching from old paradigms to newer, constantly changing paradigms is never easy, but this source provides help through a variety of comparisons of old and new, highlighting budgeting, policies, communication, facilities, human resources, customer services, emergency management, and many other issues vital to the management of a library. In addition, planning, administering, and assessing services for both physical and virtual libraries are covered.