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Unit 1: Library Administration and Management

Administration usually handles the business aspects, such as finance. It may be defined as a Notes
system of efficiently organizing people and resources, so as to make them successfully pursue
and achieve common goals and objectives. Administration is perhaps both an art and a science.
This is because administrators are ultimately judged by their performance. Administration
must incorporate both leadership and vision.
Therefore, we can see that these two terms are distinct from one another, each with their own set
of functions. Both these functions are crucial, in their own ways, to the growth of an organization.

Management is really a subset of administration, which has to do with the technical and mundane
facets of an organization’s operation. It is different from executive or strategic work. Management
deals with the employees. Administration is above management, and exercises control over the
finance and licensing of an organization.
Practically, there is no difference between management and administration. Every manager is
concerned with both – administrative management function and operative management function
as shown in Figure 1.1. However, the managers who are higher up in the hierarchy denote more
time on administrative function and the lower level denote more time on directing and controlling
worker’s performance i.e. management.

Figure 1.1: Degree of Administration and Management

Source: http://www.managementstudyguide.com/management_administration.htm

Notes The Journal of Library Administration is the primary source of information on all
aspects of the effective management of libraries.

Caselet Rachel’s Laws of Library Management

ibrary resources are for use. Your job as any type of library manager is to connect
resources with users, achieving the library’s goals. Every staff member his/her
Lwork. Learn people’s strengths and skills and deploy your staff accordingly.

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