Intro to Library Administration - The Direct Marketing Woes

I guess I forgot about this blog for a while. I need to update what I'm learning, and what I'm doing in my class and which class I'm taking right now.

I'm taking Intro to Library Administration, and I'm finding Libraries are 'not-for profit' intities. I'm also finding out that the budget allowance for a library in the government for public sector is only 8% of every tax dollar. I'm also finding out that librarians are the nuts and bolts to non-profit organizations that have libraries, which house web sources, technology, equipment, staff, and almost like a corporation. It's very hard to comprehend the amount of effort that goes into running a library, until you take a course like this, and actually do research on how a MBA is no match for running a direct marketing company, that I'm finding that deals with the retail world of delivering merchandise to the street. It's the inventory and budget costs that messes a company like that up, and usually currently librarians are trained to be leaders, not followers in their curriculum.

That is just a snap shot of my now 8 page paper for my Intro to Library Administration paper. I have 12 sources, and I'm waiting till doctor appointments wind down, and my cold goes away. I must go to the library to get books on management.

Arielle