GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

LIS 405: ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF
LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTERS
COURSE DESCRIPTION

Summer 2004

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Course Description

"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition,
and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of rsponsibility for obedience to rank,
and of authority of performance for the authority of rank."
--Peter Drucker

"Management sets the tone and determines the strategic goals.
Management is responsible for a company's success or failure.
Management sets deadlines, dress codes, corporate educational policies and determines if incompetents stay in the company."
--Irv Wendell

"I am hurt, but I'm not dead
I am wounded, but I'm not slain
I'll lay me down and bleed awhile
Then rise to fight again."
-- Old Scottish Proverb

Designed to explore the principles that govern how organizations and institutions work, this course provides a foundation for and introduction to the theories, practices and procedures involved in the management and administration of libraries and information centers. From GSLIS catalog.

Evelyn Daniel, Instructor

Revised 5/21/2004.