Library and Information Center Management:

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Summary: Library and Information Center Management:
Review: A basic text presenting the principles within a conceptual framework. Examines dynamics within the organization such as missions, goals, policies and programs, and people and also external forces such as users and funding authorities. Covers the whole range of management functions from planning and organizing to staffing, directing, and controlling. Revised from the 1993 edition (first in 1977) with expanded material on the change process, strategic planning and management, and managing conflict in a technology-intense environment.

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Summary: Sucking the joy out of librarianship page by page...
Review: I could go on and on about what a useless snoozefest this book was, but another reader has already done a far better job. Please see the review entitled "Boring, pedandic...more useful for MBA than MLS"-- it hits the nail right on the head.

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Summary: A very disappointing book
Review: Well, I had problems with both the content and the style of this book. The content is just, well, banal. So much of what is said seems trite. As for the style, I found it bland, arid, and jargony. There isn't a witty or well-crafted sentence in the book. Ideas are seldom stated plainly. Pleonasms abound. Take this sentence: "the more successful the performance in relation to the goals, the greater the degree of satisfaction experienced". The phrase "in relation to the goals" adds nothing. Nor do "degree" or "experienced". Why not just say, "the more successful the performance, the greater the satisfaction"? Perhaps that just doesn't sound clever enough.

Anyway, this book could have been written in half as many pages. Think of the waste of trees and ink, not to mention the time of the poor students who have to read it for class.

One out of five.