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Management Basics for Information Professionals

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I bought this book as a textbook for my MLIS (Master's in Library and Information Science) course. It is terribly written and edited. There are typos and misspellings galore, a simple spellcheck in the edit process would have reduced these errors by 50% or more. Spellcheck wouldn't catch the many homynym and grammar mistakes, but it would at least catch the most basic misspellings. Each chapter has about 10 errors in it.
The authors talk about Business Management concepts without giving examples to illustrate their points, which is really necessary especially when using terms that might have multiple meanings. Examples would explain and clarify their points, and enrich the text and make it more interesting.
I tried to avoid this text by signing up for a different class, but the school switched the course names and I ended up stuck with this awful textbook.
My "Portable MLIS" textbook for a different class is, however, a fabulous read (although it has a few editing mistakes, but far fewer than this Mgmt Basics text). I love reading it, each chapter is engaging and well-written.

Had to purchase this for my Management class in my Masters of Library and Information science program.

Disappointing, to say the least. Most of the content is purely common sense. Not very well written; however, that seems to be the case with most of these texts.

Maybe this is more appropriate for an undergraduate-level course (then again, the MLIS degree is appropriate for the high school level). It does have some excellent reviews of the history of management theory and some of the supplements do offer decent suggestions for tools/resources.

Overall, good for an introductory text, not for the advanced student or professional with even just a little management experience.

I'm reading this book for a required course on management of information organizations. The information in the book is important and useful, but the presentation is rather boring, and the book is full of spelling and grammatical errors. The publisher should come out with a new edition that has actually been proof-read!

This is likely the worst written text I have ever had to suffer through. I suspect that our prof felt the same way, as she, thankfully, didn't have much required reading from it. There must be a real lack of material on library management for this book to actually be a required text for anything. I am looking forward to warming my house with it this winter. Can I give it fewer than one star? Not worth the effort to figure out.

This introduction to library management provides important overviews and ideas on how to manage a library, from its people and budget to its housing and technology. Information managers receive important guidelines specific to the library environment, from making decisions and delegating work to motivating co-workers.

The content of this text was right on target with everything I needed to know for my course. I wish it would have detailed business cases and line item budgets in a bit more detail but overall a pretty good book. I was not impressed with the quality however. For the price of the book, the quality/appearance was pretty poor.I work for a publishing company and the quality was on par with a much cheaper/far inferior, international edition. The pages appeared hazy/grainy and the cover art looked like it had been slapped together by a high school art class. The content did provide some redeeming qualities but for $75 I expected a much nicer product.

This text was assigned for a management class. It was a very easy read, and is packed with a lot of information. However, there are a lot of little errors that do not take away from the content but do reduce the quality of the presentation of the product.

The book takes complex issues and presents them in a very straightforward manner.

Very easy to follow and "puts it all together" for the reader.
I am using this book as a supplement to a class I am taking and it is a "life saver".