Working with Library Boards

By Gordon S. Wade

What is the proper framework for effective board operations? How can it be achieved? This manual begins with board structure, including by-laws, officers, committees and policies. It explores the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555700802
• ISBN13: 9781555700805
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
• Length: 196 Pages

Customer Reviews

Engage your board

Wade presents practical information on such issues as laws, bylaws, committee structure, purpose and functions of trustees, and public relations.Advice is given on how to make the board representative of the community, how to conduct meetings, etc. (summary by South TX Library System) Don't take your library board for granted. I've seen it happen where a board and a director fell into a routine relationship. When the crunch came, the board wouldn't move to save the director's job as they couldn't see it justified by results. Pay attention to the advice in this book; massage your board, apply public relations techniques to it, give it something to work on and make them feel valued. It can be more than a token position, but the library director has to work with it.