Library management involves planning, organizing, leading, and controlling all functions of a library. This includes classifying and cataloging books, issuing and returning books, arranging books on shelves, and providing information to users. It also requires assembling resources, defining procedures, and space and equipment needs. Maintaining library collections requires preserving materials, organizing shelves, and conducting stock verification. Effective library management is key to planning goals and motivating employees to control operations and services.

1. LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
Presented By
Anand Y. Kenchakkanavar
Research Scholar

2. What is Library?
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a
place where history comes to life.”
Norman Cousins

3. What is Management?
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing
the right things.”
- Peter Drucker

4. What is library management?
Manage all the functions of a library like as: classification
cataloging issuances of books return of books arrange the
books in proper shelves, stock verification and providing the
information to the users etc…

5. Library management involves functions such as
planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Planning is
about systematically making decisions about the library
goals. Organizing is about assembling and coordinating
human, financial, physical, informational, and other
resources needed to achieve library goals. Leading is about
functions that involve efforts on the part of the librarian to
stimulate high performance by employees, and controlling
about monitoring various library operations and services.

6. These four management functions are highly
integrated, but libraries that excel in organizing material
opportunities available in the marketplace. Like any other
library in academic set-up or research institutions, adult
education libraries have also to be planned, organized and
managed using standard management principles and
standard library procedures and techniques for access and
retrieval.

7. Step 3: Define procedures for library organization and
administration
In any larger set up, library organization tasks
involve assembling, forming logical units of works,
defining hierarchical structures, identifying staffing
requirements, assigning tasks and responsibilities,
coordinating human, financial, physical, informational,
and other resources needed to achieve library goals.

8. Step 4: Defining library space, equipment and tools for library operations
and services
The library equipments and tools like furniture, fittings and accessories
should of standard pattern and design, so that users feel comfortable in
using them. The following is the list of essential furniture and fittings for
an adult education set up.
• Reading tables
• Librarian’s table
• Circulation or charging desk and chair
• Card catalogue trays
• Card catalogue cabinet
• Bulletin board and notice board
• Book supporters
• New arrivals display case
• Dictionary stands
• Periodicals display stand

9. • Newspaper display stand
• Storage cabinet for work room
• Atlas stand
• Wall clock
Besides, the library may acquire radio and television set, tape
recorder/player, VCR and VCP, slide and film projector, overhead
projectors, computers with internet connection, Xerox machine, etc

10. Step 5: Defining procedures for maintenance of a library collections
 Preservation of library material:
Proper care of library collections is necessary with a view to prolong its
life. This requires preserving and protecting books against decompose and
deterioration. As preventive measures, dusting and cleaning of books and
shelves must be carried out on regular basis.

11.  Organizing reading materials on shelves and their rectification
Normally, books and other reading materials in a library are organized into
different collections such as book collection, rare book collection, periodical
collection, and reference collection, etc.
 Stock verification:
Stock verification is a process of physically counting and checking inventory in
the unit , against its book balance at least once in a year.

12. Conclusion:
Management issues are fundamental to any Library
How do we plan to get things done and motivate employees,
and put in place controls to make sure our plans are followed
and our goals are met. Library management is a sub-
discipline of institutional management that focuses on specific
issues faced by libraries and library management
professionals. Library management encompasses normal
management tasks as well as intellectual freedom, anti-
censorship, and fundraising tasks. Issues faced in library
management frequently overlap those faced in management of
non-profit organizations.

13. Thank you…..