Review
For anyone teaching management concepts to library and information science (LIS) students, you could find no better text to assign than Management basics for information professionals. For recent graduates, and those beginning supervisory roles, this is definitely a book to keep in your office. -- SLA Leadership and Management Division The two principal authors have professional experience in a variety of roles and organisations, and this is very evident in the attention to detail they bring to the subject. Overall, this is a comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries and will more than likely be a prescribed text for library science students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. -- Australian Library Journal Evans, an administrator, researcher, teacher, and writer, and Alire outline the basics of management for librarians. They describe the operating environment; managerial skill sets, including planning, power, accountability, responsibility, delegating, decision making, communicating, changing and innovating, assessment, quality control, operations, and marketing and advocacy; motivating and leading people, addressing diversity, and staffing; managing money, technology, and physical facilities; and managing one's career. This edition has new chapters on legal issues, building teams, and ethics; updates technological topics like social media; and adds new sidebars relating the authors' and advisory board members' experiences. -- Reference and Research Book News A very well thought through and well written text...I will include this book into the reading list of the next autumn courses on managing libraries and I would recommend it to other teachers working in this field. It also can be useful to those librarians who have changed their mind and finally decided to embark on a managerial career or simply look for some good materials that will help to augment their professional skills. -- Information Research This is an excellent title. In some ways, it is a textbook, but I prefer to see it as an overview of the management needs within our profession and for those who work in it. The book can be quietly browsed, reminding us of the various aspects to our profession. Coming into its third edition it has been a very successful title. -- Australian Academic and Research Libraries This large tome is a distillation of theories, research, and best practices gathered by the authors and some library leaders who helped annotate the twenty-one chapters, three of which are new since the 2007 second edition. Despite the title, the book is for anyone working - or studying to work - in libraries, from entry-level professionals through directors...a printed resource that will repay reading many times over. --Catholic Library World
"A very well thought through and well written text … I will include this book into the reading list of the next autumn courses on managing libraries and I would recommend it to other teachers working in this field. It also can be useful to those librarians who have changed their mind and finally decided to embark on a managerial career or simply look for some good materials that will help to augment their professional skills." --Information Research
"The work is positioned as a recommended text for library science students, but is also an excellent source of information for career librarians wanting to refresh their knowledge of library management in a fast-moving information services environment and with a goal of moving into higher management and leadership positions … The contributions by the advisors is not presented as best practice but instead illustrates what can and does happen in libraries in reality. The two principal authors have professional experience in a variety of roles and organizations, and this is very evident in the attention to detail they bring to the subject." --Australian Library Journal
About the Author
G. Edward Evans, PhD, is a semi-retired, award-winning author and Fulbright Scholar. He holds several graduate degrees in anthropology and library and information science (LIS). Throughout his career, he has been an administrator, researcher, teacher, and writer. As a researcher, he has published in both anthropology and librarianship. He held a Fulbright Fellowship in librarianship as well as a National Science Foundation Fellowship in archaeology. His teaching experience has also been in both fields in the United States and the Nordic countries. Of note, he completed the faculty ladder (assistant to full professor) while teaching at the Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Evans has extensive administrative experience in private academic libraries such as Harvard University and Loyola Marymount University. He retired from full-time work as associate academic vice president for libraries and information resources at Loyola Marymount University. Evans spends his semi-retirement years volunteering at the Museum of Northern Arizona, serving on the Foundation board for the Flagstaff City– Coconino County Library System, and doing professional writing.
Camila Alire is Dean Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University. She is Past-President of the ALA, ALA/APA, the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and also REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to the Spanish-speaking. She has co-authored books on library service to Latino communities and disaster planning and recovery. She was the first recipient of ALA’s Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award and was named by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States. 
