Applying general risk management principles to library administration

Recent areas of digital library innovation, such as digital rights management, have led librarians to apply risk management (RM) principles to certain circumscribed areas of library management. This paper will attempt to argue that risk management principles can in fact be applied much more generally in modern library administration. A conceptual paper based on abstract principles of risk management. That different approaches to risk management apply in digital librarianship, as opposed to traditional, print-based library work. Also, that different models of 'RM' can be used at the level of the employee in contrast to the global perspective of the organisation as a whole. Because this is a conceptual piece, there is ample room for further experimental testing of these hypotheses. This paper rejects some of the principles of RM that are less relevant to the 'people management' problems of hybrid (print-electronic) library administration. It offers an abstract statement of RM principles that should be of genuine practical usefulness to middle managers helping staff cope with the problems of 'mixed media', hybrid library environments. This paper relates ideas from general business risk management to practitioner librarianship in ways that have not been attempted previously

A Biblical View Of Library Administration

While individuals sometimes do worthwhile tasks working by themselves, most of the work of modern civilization is done by people working together in groups. Groups require administration. This essay examines some aspects of the role of administration and administrators in libraries from a biblical point of view

AdaNET prototype library administration manual

The functions of the AdaNET Prototype Library of Reusable Software Parts is described. Adopted from the Navy Research Laboratory's Reusability Guidebook (V.5.0), this is a working document, customized for use the the AdaNET Project. Within this document, the term part is used to denote the smallest unit controlled by a library and retrievable from it. A part may have several constituents, which may not be individually tracked. Presented are the types of parts which may be stored in the library and the relationships among those parts; a concept of trust indicators which provide measures of confidence that a user of a previously developed part may reasonably apply to a part for a new application; search and retrieval, configuration management, and communications among those who interact with the AdaNET Prototype Library; and the AdaNET Prototype, described from the perspective of its three major users: the part reuser and retriever, the part submitter, and the librarian and/or administrator

Foreword to Library Trends 6 (4) 1958: Legal Aspects of Library Administration

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Integrating digital document acquisition into a university library : A case study of social and organizational challenges

In this article we report on the effort of the university library of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration to integrate a digital library component for research documents authored at the university into the existing library infrastructure. Setting up a digital library has become a relatively easy task using the current data base technology and the components and tools freely available. However, to integrate such a digital library into existing library systems and to adapt existing document acquisition work-flows in the organization are non-trivial tasks. We use a research frame work to identify the key players in this change process and to analyze their incentive structures. Then we describe the light-weight integration approach employed by our university and show how it provides incentives to the key players and at the same time requires only minimal adaptation of the organization in terms of changing existing work-flows. Our experience suggests that this light-weight integration offers a cost efficient and low risk intermediate step towards switching to exclusive digital document acquisition

The Evolution[s] of WLU Press: Towards Library–University Press Integration

In March 2015, Wilfrid Laurier University administration announced that WLU Press would be integrating with the Laurier Library. Media coverage of this announcement has been mixed, and is an indication of the ambivalent response to library-press collaborations or integrations, in both the university press and library communities. This article considers the WLU case at its current early stage of development, discussing this transformation not necessarily as “progress” but as one response to a rapidly shifting scholarly environment. By examining the pressure points of the negotiations to merge the press and the library at WLU, this article considers the question of how to maximize opportunities and minimize the potential negative impacts of such integration. In order for such a partnership to be successful, both must be willing to evaluate their business models, their core missions within the scholarly ecosystem and the marketplace, as well as how they measure professionalization and success

Developing a Best Practices Plan for Tutorials in a Multi-Library System

In 2010, the University of Iowa's library system administration created a task force to conduct a reevaluation of tools and spaces used for video tutorial creation across a multi-library system. Following this effort, a working group was charged with improving documentation and staff awareness of resources for developing video tutorials. The group observed that librarians were often independently creating videos that were variable in quality, lacked consistent branding, and were not often shared with others. This article will describe experiences at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa in selecting video tutorial software, and striving to establish a more structured process, including team-developed guidelines, for tutorial creation in a multi-library system. Project limitations and areas for future work will also be presented

Could the library be dismantled/role of unique holdings in modern times

I have been asked by administration, how much of our collection could go into storage. They optimistically hoping for a room or two for faculty/staff offices, as some buildings need renovation or need to be closed due to safety issues. Clearly, much of the population believes that all/most library materials are available on-line – free. I will present the results of our survey’s of material held and available on-line and space “freed” thanks to archiving. How little space is freed

PERENCANAAN DAN PEMBUATAN SISTEM ADMINISTRASI PERPUSTAKAAN JURUSAN MATEMATIKA DAN KOMPUTASI (PERMAKOM)

The development of technology information in modern periods brings out many new applications, including a library administration system. More speed technology information use system in library can lag, the various application program that use for easily service and expedite management activity or administration. From various applications that on hand AppServ is one of application that use for this purpose. \ud AppServ is software application freeware ( may use free by whom so) that load Apache as webserver, PHP as programmer language, My SQL as database and phpMyadmin as data base \ud super intendment. Pass AppServ, library administration above can be application. Finally, using application Appserv above will use library administration “PERMAKOM” in mathematics and computer department Muhammadiyah University of Malan

Study of Management of Kearsipan Efficiency of Employees Performance in Office Upt Library in Kutai Timur Regency.

Reksi Firmansyah. STUDY OF MANAGEMENT OF KEARSIPAN EFFICIENCY OF EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE IN OFFICE UPT LIBRARY IN KUTAI TIMUR REGENCY. Each organization, whether large or small, must have a goal to be achieved, to achieve that goal every organization must have a place as an office. Each office must require a unit that manages everything related to administrative activities. Administration activity is a wide scope of activities, usually all administrative activities are processed in a separate unit called the administration, administration, secretariat, office and so forth. Administrative activities in an office basically also have a result like other units. The results or products of an office are letters, forms, and reports. The management of letters, forms, and reports produced and received by an office will ultimately relate to archives. So, the administrative activity is basically produce, receive, process, and store various letters, forms, reports and so forth. Office of the Library Unit of East Kutai Regency is one of the government offices that serve the public interest that will not be separated from archival activities. Office that daily handles library membership card, storage of documents or other documents, makes the office has various archives. Success in archive management is determined by many things. Filing factors such as storage systems, archiving employees, archival equipment, and of course with work environment. The management of archives conducted at the Office of the District Library of East Kutai Regency greatly affects the success or failure of the reinvention of the archives. Observations made at The Office of UPT Library of East Kutai Regency shows that in carrying out the archive management of the office still not fully implement the archive management because it is caused by several factors. These factors include the limited costs for the procurement of archive management facilities