Details the purpose and need for a library technology plan, technology challenges facing libraries, emerging technologies, and the current technology environment for libraries.
Libraries enter into strategic planning by a variety of routes, from dynamic technology and rising costs to budget cuts and pressure for change. In this book, Joe Matthews guides library managers tow
Facing budget and personnel cuts, special librarians increasingly need to justify the cost of library operations--often even the library's existence. Expert Joseph Matthews illustrates how to evaluate
Librarians have historically relied on the perceived "value or goodness" of the public library as a means to garner financial support. Yet it is now becoming apparent that public libraries must demons
Hernon (library and information science, Simmons College) and Matthews, a library consultant, provide librarians with a guide to gathering information from the client perspective to meet library patro
Academic and public libraries are much different today than they were even 15 years ago. And with even bigger changes on the horizon, what lies in store? In this systematic attempt to speak to academ
Probably the hardest part of evaluating an academic library is getting started with it. Here, Hernon (library and information systems, Simmons College), Dugan (dean of libraries, U. of West Florida),
Hernon, Dugan, and Matthews explain how library managers can use the ACRLMetrics and PLAmetrics online data services that provide access to the library statistics of the Association of College and Res
