Open AccessBook Review: The Purpose-Based Library: Finding Your Path to Survival, Success, and Growth
Author(s) -
Linda Ward-Callaghan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n3.246b
Subject(s) - outsourcing , library management , context (archaeology) , competition (biology) , order (exchange) , library science , management , value (mathematics) , administration (probate law) , operations research , computer science , sociology , business , political science , engineering , economics , marketing , history , law , finance , ecology , archaeology , machine learning , biology
Building on the management principles presented in his book, Lean Library Management: Eleven Strategies for Reducing Costs and Improving Services (Neal-Schuman 2011), John Huber extends the “lean” philosophy to help libraries define the core purposes that add value to their community in order to survive, succeed, and grow. Huber includes anecdotes and facts from libraries with which he has consulted to illustrate the effect that increased competition, reduced assessments, budget cuts, and outsourcing have on libraries and that ways that some libraries have resisted these effects. In addition to examples cited by Huber, each chapter also features insights from Steven V. Potter, library director at Mid-Continent Public Library in Missouri, which put the discussion in the context of library administration experience.