Robert D. Stueart

As is the problem with many textbooks, this book explains its subject well, just not in an interesting fashion. Admittedly, many writers would have trouble making an explanation of budgeting processes (just to choose a topic) fascinating. I do want to give the authors credit for understanding their audience. At the end of the book, they talk about how most library science students don't intend on becoming managers and that many of them have really negative feelings about managing. (They show more figure students should study management anyway, since most librarians will have to manage someone at some point in their careers). show less

Let me just leave you with this line: "...,many librarians, especially women, lack confidence that they would be successful as managers, and thus, never apply for managerial positions."

Thanks. I hate it.

An appalling mix of '90s management jargon and bad grammar. It's a chore fighting my way through each assigned chapter, and when they are over I feel like all I got from it is the loss of an hour of my life.

If you are a teacher, please do not force this on your students.

This was the required text for a management of libraries class. This book did less to prepare me for management duties than a book of Dilbert cartoons.
Rather than actually consider real-life examples of managment issues in a library, this book seems to take the text from history of management textbooks and add the work Library whereever possible. This book does not consider the implications managerial issues have on all levels of a library's professional staff, which makes it a very poor show more textbook to use for a library management class. show less