The Importance of Management for Library Staff and Goals

This essay delves into the significance of management within a library context, emphasizing its importance for all staff members, regardless of their managerial aspirations. The paper highlights three key reasons why understanding management is crucial: it enhances efficiency in problem-solving, equips staff with essential skills like cataloging and record-keeping, and provides cost-effective management knowledge applicable to various roles. Furthermore, the essay underscores the development of communication skills through interactions with library patrons and colleagues, and the ability to organize tasks effectively. It also emphasizes how library management fosters leadership qualities and contributes to the overall goals of the library, including development, organization, resource administration, and effective management practices. By understanding these aspects, library staff can significantly contribute to the library's success.

Running head: IMPORTANCE OF MANAGEMENT
Importance of Management
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Topic: Why is it important for everyone who works in a library to understand something
about management even if they have no plans to become a manager? How does it help them
to contribute to the library’s ability to meet its goals? Your paper should provide at least three
reasons why management is important.
Management is an important aspect that helps in gathering knowledge about
organisation or organising products. Management is an important aspect while working in a
library (Jordan & Lloyd, 2017). The paper is intended to understand the importance of
management in library and ways working in a library will contribute to the development of
management goals. The paper will provide with three reasons wherein one will get the
knowledge of the importance of management.
Everyone must work in a library to understand management as it helps one will be
able to understand the efficiency that is required to resolve issues in management (Bryson,
2017). One will be more efficient when worked in a library. The library management system
has been developed to increase the efficiency of a librarian or a library user. Working in a
library helps want to gather the skill to catalogue books and keep a record of the books that
are available in the library.
Moreover, working in a library will help in learning management without opting for
any courses. One working in a library will have a knowledge of management that is cost-
effective (Hudson & Hudson, 2019). Management of a library will help in the management of
various other jobs that will be a benefit for a manager. Apart from that, library management
will help in the organisation of the tasks and duties in the life of a person.
Library management will help in the development of communication skill of a person.
While working in a library, the librarian had to communicate with various people who will be
visiting the library. They have to be very skilful while communicating. It helps in the

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development of communication with the people working in the organisation as well
(Böhlmark, Grönqvist & Vlachos, 2016). The librarian needs to communicate with the
employees as well as publishers they have to develop their communication skill that will help
in the development of the communication skills.
Keeping track of the books in the library is a very difficult task. Moreover, it is also
important that the books that are being borrowed by people must have a record that will help
in keeping a track. Keeping track of numerous books in the library is a difficult task (Hudson
& Hudson, 2019). Moreover, there is a large number of books of varieties genre management
of the book in the right place and the shelf is another difficult task that has to be performed
by a library manager. With time, there are new editions published; it is the duty of the
librarian to keep track of the new books present in the market and if required, replace the old
edition with the new edition.
Every person must once be a librarian as it helps in the understanding of management
and its importance while working in an organisation (Bryson, 2017). Library management
will help one to be a great leader. It will help in the management of the employees while
working as a leader. It will also help one to remember the task that is being allocated to the
employees. In the management of books, one will also be able to understand the ways of
employee management (Kendler et al., 2016). Hence, it will help in the development of the
production of the organisation. The main goals of the library are to develop, organise and
manage. Understanding library management will help in the management and organisation of
the library. Its other goal is to administer resources effectively. It will help a person to
understand that the management of resources in an organisation.
Hence, it can be concluded that working in a library will help in the development of
the management skills of a person. It helps a person to be more organised while working. It

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also helps the person to be skilful and communicative that will be a great skill while being a
leader. A person who will be working in a library will have the knowledge of management as
well as it will help in the meeting of the goals of the library.

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