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Author Auster, Ethel.

Title Downsizing in academic libraries : the Canadian experience / Ethel Auster, Shauna Taylor.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 204 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Perspectives on Downsizing in the Literatures of Management and Library Science -- National and Regional Trends in Enrolment, Expenditures, Holdings, and Staffing Levels -- Management of Downsizing -- Impact of Downsizing: Programs and Services -- Impact of Downsizing: Factors at the Organizational and Individual Levels -- Legacy of Downsizing.
Summary "Ethel Auster and Shauna Taylor's Downsizing in Academic Libraries is a comprehensive study of the trials faced by Canadian academic libraries in the 1990s. The authors surveyed opinions from over 1100 librarians from across the country. Based on these surveys, they describe how downsizing was implemented, while looking at its impact on programs and services, organizational climate, and employees, and its effect on user services and program delivery. Their study also includes a statistical portrait of library expenditures, holdings, and staffing levels set against trends in enrolment for the period 1982-83 to 1997-98." "Downsizing in Academic Libraries will be of interest to policy makers in government, universities, and libraries; to managers and staffs of academic libraries; to researchers, teachers, and students of library and information studies and of organizational strategies, processes, and behaviour; and to all library stakeholders concerned about the effects of budget cutbacks over the past decade."--Jacket.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Academic libraries -- Canada -- Administration.
Academic libraries.
Canada.
Administration.
Academic libraries -- Canada -- Personnel management.
Personnel management.
Libraries -- Canada -- Reorganization.
Libraries.
Downsizing of organizations -- Canada.
Downsizing of organizations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Taylor, Shauna, 1961-
Other Form: Print version: Auster, Ethel, 1942- Downsizing in academic libraries. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2004 (DLC) 2004276481 (OCoLC)54065742
ISBN 9781442674042 (electronic book)
1442674040 (electronic book)
1281992739
9781281992734
0802089755 (bound)
9780802089755