Library Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness: Essays in Honor of Wernest R. Deporspo Contributor(s): Summers, F. William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0893915971 ISBN-13: 9780893915971 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $120.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1990 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - General - Education | Research |
Dewey: 025.1 |
LCCN: 89-78242 |
Series: Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.95 lbs) 1 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of ideas related to library performance yet assembled. It brings together noted researchers and successful library directors and educators who have extended the landmark findings and efforts of their mentor and friend, Ernest DeProsp. The editors give a historical account of contemporary measurement activities; suggest methodologies for measuring performance; offer viewpoints on planning, goal-setting and validity; and comment on problems associated with planning, one of the major tools of measurement. Readers of the book will develop informed opinions about planning, a practice that when entered into unaware can enslave an organization in endless data gathering routines and tax their endurance beyond reasonable points. Thought-provoking comments on the directions taken, and not taken, by library thinkers challenge the reader to speculate about current library-think. |