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

By:

Auster, Ethel

Contributor(s):

Taylor, Shauna, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: CEL - Canadian Publishers CollectionPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 204 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781442674042
1442674040
1281992739
9781281992734
9786611992736
6611992731

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Downsizing in academic libraries.DDC classification:

025.1/977/0971 22

LOC classification:

Z675.U5 A857 2004eb

Other classification:

06.52

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Contents:

Perspectives on Downsizing in the Literatures of Management and Library Science -- National and Regional Trends in Enrolment, Expenditures, Holdings, and Staffing Levels -- The Management of Downsizing -- The Impact of Downsizing: Programs and Services -- The Impact of Downsizing: Factors at the Organizational and Individual Levels -- The Legacy of Downsizing.

Review: "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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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