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.
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Academic libraries. |
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Canada. |
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Administration. |
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Academic libraries -- Canada -- Personnel management.
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Personnel management. |
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Libraries -- Canada -- Reorganization.
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Libraries. |
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Downsizing of organizations -- Canada.
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Downsizing of organizations. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Taylor, Shauna, 1961-
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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) |
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1442674040 (electronic book) |
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1281992739 |
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9781281992734 |
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0802089755 (bound) |
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9780802089755 |
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