Effective Management of Resources in Library

Running head: EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES IN LIBRARY
Effective management of resources in library
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1EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES IN LIBRARY
Part 1: Summary
The provided article has been taken from the Independent Consultant and Founder of
Library Technology Guides (Breeding, 2017). This article has been written by Marshall
Breeding. He is the person who has been designated with several positions in the community
guide. He is a consultant, a writer, a frequent speaker and at the same he is also the founder of
the Library Technology Guides and their website is librarytechnology.org. From the profile
of Marshal Breeding it is quite evident that he comprises of a wide range of knowledge
regarding the matter of managing information about the libraries. These are the reasons for
which Marshal Breeding is considered to be an expert on this topic.
The main goal of this article is to focus on the challenges of effectively managing the
digital, electronic and the print library collections. The sections that has been highlighted in
the article includes the various types of the information resources of the library in the form of
the physical sources, digital collections and the electronic sources (Bryson, 2017). This
probes to bring in a lot of complications in the process of management, subscription of the
fees and open access to the resources. These complications of the organisations can be solved
following a set of dedicated ideas or strategies that the author has discussed in this article to
manage a diverse set of collections. These ideas are balancing efforts and attention,
increasing efficiency and decreasing costs, improving the quality of metadata, strengthening
the impact of collections, investing appropriately and preparing for the future.
Part 2: Reflection
The strategy that I feel will prove to become the easiest in accomplishing by the
libraries is the strategy of improving the quality of metadata. It is because the strategy will
ensure the reduction of human workload and at the same time will introduce the effectiveness
of the quality of metadata through the automation of the processes. The strategy that I feel