Exploring the Core Aspects of Library Management and its Benefits

This essay discusses the importance of management in libraries, highlighting the need for librarians to possess managerial skills for tasks such as planning, fundraising, and stock maintenance. It emphasizes that a library management system (LMS) reduces costs by automating processes and minimizing the need for manual labor. Effective management enhances library efficiency by enabling easy cataloging, tracking issued books, and providing quick access to information for students. Additionally, it saves time, increases worker productivity, and improves the overall presentation of the library, making it more attractive and user-friendly. The essay references scholarly articles to support its claims about the benefits of library management.

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Importance of management in a library
It is important for everyone who works in a library to understand something about
management even if there do not have a plan of being a manager as because a library is a place
which is known for being a sub discipline of the institutional management. It is the known for
focusing on specific issues which are faced by the libraries and library management
professionals. Therefore the librarian is known for having knowledge about the intellectual
freedom for managerial tasks such as fundraising responsibilities as well as managing various
types of books in racks. The issues which are faced by the librarian in managing the library is
known for frequently faced by the nonprofit organization in managing various types of actions.
Basic managerial actions which are faced by the librarian in a library are planning and
negotiating the acquisition of materials. Stock maintenance as well as overseeing the fee
collection, Event planning, fundraising and managing the human resource are the primary work
of a librarian (Popoola, 2017).
A librarian should have the basic management skills which will help him to perform
professionally in a library. Managerial skills will also provide access to information and
sometimes the social or technical programming information will help the library to provide
instruction on information literacy to the students. Therefore a library management system is
known for reducing the cost of management in the library it is also system which is known for
eliminating the needs to employ huge amount of labor and workers in order to keep the manual
files which in a process helps in cost reduction. According to the authors Moran and Morner
(2017) a library management system or LMS is software which is known for handling the least
developed housekeeping functions of a library. A librarian needs to be well organized and

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provide information on the registered materials present in the library. The author also says that
the basic managerial skills are known for setting up principles to the librarian such as functions
of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the students who are present in the library. The
skills for management factors are known for harnessing effectively in order to achieve the
organizational goals are the goals set by the librarian in the library.
Management is very important in a library as because it is known for increasing the
efficiency of the librarians and the library users. A good library management system and will be
enabling the librarian to easily catalogue the books and keep proper record of the books which
are issued and those which are not returned by the student itself. On the other hand the library
can be easily used by the student in accessing any kind of book that need at any moment of time.
It also helps in reduction of the cost of managing a library. The management system in a library
eliminates the need to employ extra workers in directing and keeping manual files. Management
in a library also helps in saving time as because the library and can easily record and go through
the history of individual library users who issue books in the library. Proper management system
also helps in increasing the productivity of the library workers. It increases the productivity so as
by automatic the day to day process of the library and as well as the workers to her present inside
the library (Li,2019). Due to the growing is of doing the work the workers as well as the librarian
can engaging other important activities inside the library which will not incurred any additional
cost to them. Last but not the least proper management system enhances the presentation of the
library that is the looks about the books which are present inside the library. Therefore a library
with a good management system looks tidy as well as attractive to the students.

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References
Moran, B. B., & Morner, C. J. (2017). Library and information center management. ABC-CLIO.
Li, J. (2019). Security Management Measures for Library Computer Network. Journal of
Contemporary Educational Research, 3(4).
Popoola, S. O. (2017). Faculty awareness and use of library information products and services in
Nigerian Universities. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 13(1), 91-102.