Administration of the Public Library

Contains chapter on the history of public library in US. Contents: Foreword / Arthur Curley The Public Library in Context -- Environments -- Systems Theory -- Management for Public Librarians -- History of the Public Library in the United States -- The Colonial and Post-Revolutionary Periods -- The Boston Public Library -- The American Library Association and the Age of Dewey -- The Carnegie Decades -- World Wars and the Depression -- The Era of the Public Library Inquiry -- The Golden Age of American Public Libraries -- The Public Library Today -- Social Forces -- A Contemporary Profile -- Local Libraries -- Size Limitations of Local Libraries -- Serving Emergent Populations -- Organization and Planning -- Technological Change -- Financial Support -- Additional Library Concerns -- The Limitations of Change -- The White House Conference on Library and Information Services, 1991 -- Staying Current and Professional -- Ethics -- The Community Context -- Demographics -- The Uses of the Library -- Limitations of Community Analysis -- Sources of Information -- Studying the Library -- Legal Status, Governance and Politics -- Criticism of the Library Board Form of Organization -- Alternate Forms of Organization -- The Job of the Library Trustee -- Structure of the Library Board -- The Library Board Meeting -- Trustees and the Law -- The Trustee and the Changing Library World -- Trustee Associations, State Libraries and Local Trustees -- Organization -- Library Organizations -- The Planning Process -- Organization Charts -- Organizational Problems -- Restructuring the Library