Strategic Planning in Higher Education: Implementing New Roles for the Academic Library [Paperback]

ContentsIntroduction

• Strategic Planning and Management: A Methodology for Responsible Change
• Strategic Planning at Iowa State University: Affirmation and Expectations
• Inserting the Library Into a Broader Campus Planning Process
• The Dreams of the Reasonable: Integrating Library and University Planning
• Refocusing, Rebalancing, and Refining (R3): The Libraries Role in Strategic Long-Range Planning at Michigan State University
• The University of Iowa Libraries Strategic Plan
• The Library Long-Range Planning Process at Wayne State
• Transforming the Library: Strategic Planning at Bradley University-- The University Perspective
• Transforming the Library: Strategic Planning at Bradley University--The Library Perspective
• Conformity and Diversity: Local Library Planning in a Multi-Campus System
• Planning for Diversity: Strategic Planning for an Urban Academic Library
• University Libraries and Academic Strategic Planning at the University of Cincinnati
• A Strategic Planning Process for the Multi-Campus University System: The Role of One Campus and its Library
• A Strategic Planning Imperative: The Penn State Experience

In this refreshing new volume, strategic planning of budget management is looked at with a broad, positive perspective. Whether because of cuts in funding, enrollment decline, or academic cutbacks, the necessity for strategic planning in a university comes out of unfavorable circumstances. The chapters cover the planning process from start to finish, with an emphasis on a final goal of bringing the librarys status from one of an economic competitor to a deserving equal in the eyes of the academic community. The development of programs and long--term goals for various programs with realistic results in mind are stressed in this timely book.

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