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Course title: Library management

 

Instructor: Associate professor Radovan Vrana, PhD

 

ECTS credits: 6

 

Course language: Croatian

 

Semester: 8th

 

Status: Compulsory

 

Form of Instruction: Lectures and seminars

 

Prerequisites: none

 

Examination: Written + student paper

 

Course objective: The objective of the course is to acquaint the students with most important concepts in library management.

 

Course description:

  • Introduction to management in libraries, Library as an organization
  • Characteristics of managers
  • Management functions
  • Decision making
  • Resources management in library
  • Marketing
  • Leadership
  • Motivation
  • Change manegement

 

Reading list:

  1. Pavičić, Jurica ; Alfirević, Nikša ; Aleksić, Ljiljana. Marketing i menadžment u kulturi i umjetnosti. Zagreb : Masmedia, 2006
  2. Sikavica, Pere; Bahtijarević-Šiber, Fikreta. Menadžment : teorija menadžmenta i veliko empirijsko istraživanje u Hrvatskoj. Zagreb : Masmedia, 2004.
  3. Sikavica, Pere; Bahtijarević-Šiber, Fikreta; Pološki Vokić, Nina. Temelji menadžmenta. Zagreb : Školska knjiga, 2008.
  4. Evans, G. Edward; Ward, Patricia Layzell; Rugaas, Bendik. Management basics for information professionals. New York; London: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2000.
  5. Potter, Ned. The library marketing toolkit. London: Facet publishing, 2012.

 

Recommende reading:

  1. Choy, Fatt Cheong. Libraries and librarians – what next? // Library Management 28, 3(2007), 112-124.
  2. Davies, Eric J. Taking a measured approach to library management: performance evidence applications and culture. // Management, marketing and promotion of library services based on statistics, analyses and evaluation. /  edited by Trine Kolderup Flaten. München, Munchen : K.G. Saur, 2006, Str. 17-32.
  3. Enache, Ionel. The theoretical fundamentals of library marketing. // Philobiblon 13(2008), 477-490.
  4. Ozretić-Došen, Đ. Osnove marketinga usluga. Zagreb : Mikrorad, 2002.
  5. Russell, Susan E.; Jie Huang. Libraries’ role in equalizing access to information. // Library Management 30, 1/2(2009), 69-76.
  6. Sikavica, Pere; Bahtijarević-Šiber, Fikreta; Pološki Vokić, Nina. Suvremeni menadžment: vještine, sustavi i izazovi. Zagreb : Školska knjiga, 2008.
  7. Waller, Vivienne; Ian McShane. Analysing the challenges for large public libraries in the twenty-first century : a case study of the State Library of Victoria in Australia. // First Monday. 13, 12(2008) http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2155/2060