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Seema Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 5: Organizing

Unit 5: Organizing Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
5.1 Purpose and Need for Organizing

5.1.1 Organization vs. Management
5.1.2 Library and Society
5.1.3 Organization vs. Administration
5.2 Organizational Structure
5.3 Line and Staff Functions
5.3.1 Outline, Requirements and Positions

5.3.2 Librarian Roles and Duties
5.4 Departmentalization
5.5 Organizational Charts
5.6 Authority and its Decentralization Quality Circles and Matrix Structures

5.7 Functional Organization of Libraries
5.8 Summary
5.9 Keywords
5.10 Review Questions
5.11 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and need for organizing
• Know about the organizational structure
• Explain the line and staff functions

• Discuss about the departmentalization
• Describe the organizational chart

• Explain the functional organization of libraries.

Introduction

A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library materials (books, serials,
audiovisual materials, computer files, maps, manuscripts, realia) according to their subject
and allocating a call number to that information resource. Similar to classification systems
used in biology, bibliographic classification systems group entities together that are similar,
typically arranged in a hierarchical tree structure. A different kind of classification system,

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