The Complete Library Trustee Handbook

by Sally Gardner Reed, Jillian Kalonick

Give your trustees the tools needed to translate their experiences and interests into strong results on behalf of their libraries. Current executive director of the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) and former public library director Sally Gardner Reed draws on her years of success leading Friends of Libraries USA to provide trustees with straightforward, easy-to-read, guidance on how to make the most of their vital role. She guides readers through important issues including sustainable fundraising and advocacy, hiring and evaluating a library director, strategic planning, director-trustee collaboration, and policy development. There is also an extensive examination of the library director's role, with advice for managing staff, determining service strategies, managing budgets, implementing policies and reporting to the board. Readers of The Complete Library Trustee Handbook will be brought up to speed on optimizing board effectiveness, board ethics issues, conflicts of interests, and efficient meeting management, and a chapter on key issues for libraries addresses intellectual freedom, user privacy, pay equity for library workers, privatization of public libraries, and funding.

141 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Kevin Keating · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked up quite a few ideas from this book, which is interesting if you are interested in how libraries are run from the board-member perspective. But it written by the American Library Association, who might have different ideas about how a library should be run from those citizens who pay for the library system and elect its board-members. Not sure you want the unions suggesting how a school board should be run.