TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auster,Ethel
AU  - Taylor,Shauna
TI  - Downsizing in Academic Libraries: The Canadian Experience 
SN  - 9780802089755
AV  - Z675.U5 A857 2004eb
U1  - 025.1/977/0971 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Academic libraries
KW  - Canada
KW  - Administration
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - Downsizing of organizations
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Reorganization
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The 1990s provided many challenges for Canadian academic library managers. Financial cutbacks at the federal and provincial levels quickly trickled down to universities and their libraries, and administrators were forced to learn how to manage with shrinking budgets.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, its impact on programs and services, organizational climate, and employees, and the legacy of downsizing 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 organizational strategies, processes, and behaviour, and library and information studies; and to all stakeholders of academic libraries who are interested in what has taken place over the past decade as a result of downsizing in Canadian academic research libraries
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442674042
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442674042/original
ER  -