Library management skills

Librarians also perform some mangement responsibilities in their organizations, such as planning, staffing, budgeting, etc. That's partly why most library school students are encouraged to take some management courses, and MLIS programs in some universities are even affiliated in the scool of management and administration. Most librarians are working as team leaders, so leadship and administration skills are fairly important for them. Some core skills in this area include:

Knowledge of Library planning, accounting, and financial policies, procedures and systems.

Ability to forecast library requirements and the direction of local community needs in the future.

Knowledge of employment laws and regulations that impact hiring new employees.

Knowledge of law and regulations as well as Library policies, systems and procedures related to supervision of employees.

Treats others with honesty, respect, and fairness

Some good references:

Bazillion, Richard J. Planning the Academic Library of the Future. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 1(2), 151-160. April 2001. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v001/1.2bazillion.html

Pitkin, Gary M., ed. The National Digital Library: A Guide to the Future for Library Managers, pp. 1-16. 1996

Stueart, Robert D. and Barbara B. Moran. Library and Information Center Management. 6th edition.

Nozero, Victoria A. and Jason Vaughan, Utilization of Process Improvement to Manage Change in an Academic Library,?Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26, 2000, pp. 416-421.

Harrington-Mackin, Deborah. The Team Building Took Kit. HD60/H387/1994.

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