Politics and the American Public Library: Creating Political Support for Library Goals

by Edwin Beckerman

Examines the ways in which library administrators can use the political process to achieve their goals and objectives without compromising the deeply held ethical principles of librarianship. This text addresses questions of institutional identity; the political posture of public libraries; the development of strategic and tactical plans; the relationship between the internal power struggle of the library and its external political activity; library...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810831155
• ISBN13: 9780810831155
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.7"