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Direct linkLonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was an efficiency expert whose concerns were less about avoiding worker fatigue and more about increasing profit margins by any means necessary. Taylor was devoted to finding the One Best Way to carry out a task and then training workers to do that task unvaryingly; attempts by employees to improve their own…
Descriptors: Job Training, Workplace Literacy, Library Administration, Library Services
Isaacson, David – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
This essay explores some of the conflicts faced by the author, a liaison with book-selection responsibilities to a university English Department. These conflicts include: trying to fill gaps missed by profiles set up with our book vendor; trying to achieve a reasonable balance between canonical and non-canonical texts; between primary texts and…
Descriptors: Library Development, Library Materials, Library Policy, Performance Factors
