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    1. CHANGE STRATEGIES IN A PROACTIVE LIBRARY MANAGEMENT by Fe Angela M. Verzosa
    2. Overview
      • Libraries are user-centered organizations focused on patron satisfaction.
      • Libraries value access to information as fundamental to higher education/research.
      • Up-to-date technology provides one of the best means to reach their goals.
      • Information Technology has brought significant changes to Libraries
    3. Today’s situation
      • Coping with sheer quantity of published material
      • Growing number of non-print and media materials
      • Escalating user demand for access
      • Rising costs
      • Accepting innovations due to IT
      • Implementing new strategies
    4. Information technology
      • technologies are tools to make information-
      • handling easier, more efficient, and less
      • costly.
      • Technologies must be looked into as means
      • to an end --- not the end themselves.
      • The technological concerns are:
        • effectiveness
        • efficiency
        • economy
    5. New Technologies
      • Automation
      • Online databases
      • CD-ROMs
      • Interactive Multimedia
      • Electronic publishing
      • Electronic mails and file transfers
      • Digitization
      • Networking
      • from Librarian ...
      • to information intermediary
      Impact of New Technologies
      • collection policies
      • budgeting & funding
      • acquisition methods
      • bibliographic control
      • cataloging processes
      • reference services
      • staffing
      • physical facilities
    6. Definition of Management “ the exercise of responsibility for the effective use of the human, financial and other resources available to meet an organization’s objectives .”
    7. Strategic Planning
        • proactive than reactive
        • focused on desired outcomes
        • participative
    8. Resources and the Managerial Function FUNCTION: Planning Organizing Staffing Directing Controlling RESOURCE Money People Facilities Master plan covers all three multi-year budgeting hiring plan building plans Selection, training, motiva- tion periodic acct’g data meetings, written memos repair orders budgets job rating, review mainte- nance logs
    9. Ingredients of an Effective Manager
      • Self-knowledge - competence, skills, limits
      Leadership-- -charisma, power to influence opinion, ability to inspire Vision Time management: spending more time at work, doing work quickly and efficiently, delegating work, eliminating unnecessary tasks, etc. Effective Communication: meetings, writing memos, submitting reports, organizing paperwork Public Relations: dealing with people, fund-raising, promoting/marketing
    10. customer satisfaction basic expected desired unanticipated responsive/reactive towards proactive
    11. Change Strategies in a Proactive Library Management
      • Redefine the role (image) of librarians
      • Upgrade librarians’ professionalism
      • Improve recruiting
      • Restructure library management (from hierarchical to horizontal structure)
      • Redesign library work
      • Reinvent the library
    12. IMAGE-BUILDING adopting the faculty-researcher model knowledge-bavigators resource managers diversifying from collection development to library management systems design, and research and publications
    13. Upgrade librarian’s professionalism *delegating non-professional work to support staff *increasing pay scale *continuing education *adherence to code of ethics
    14. IMPROVE RECRUITING * HIRE PROFESSIONALS: systems managers, media specialists, programmers, archivists, documentalists *REQUIRE MLS as entry point *HIRE ONLY LICENSED LIBRARIANS
    15. CONTINUING EDUCATION ...to produce management-minded librarians with special skills in computing, multimedia, and archival documentation work .
    16. RESTRUCTURE library management * developing participatory management style *evolving semi-autonomous workgroups *reducing the number/ level of supervisors or flattening the structure
    17. Change Strategies as solutions to org problems
      • increased control
      • cutbacks - downsizing right sizing
      • incentives
      • motivators
      • consultants
      • team management
    18. redesign library work *create semiautonomous depts *review job functions with emphasis on flexibility *adopt flexitime schedules
    19. reinvent the library wall-less hi-tech people-centered proactive

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