Academic Library: A Managerial Review

Abstract

This paper Academic Library: A Managerial Review explores management of academic libraries. The paper looks at  academic library as an information center established in tertiary institution to support the mission of their parent  institutions, which has to do with teaching, learning and research with the available information resources. The  paper further defines academic library management as an efficient utilization of library resources to achieve the  organizations objective and also as a process of getting things done through an individual, a group or people, to  accomplish set targets. The paper looks at an academic library management and states that the extent, to which the  academic library is able to perform effectively, depends so much on its managerial competence. This paper discusses  also the origin of academic library, library management in terms of its functions such as staffing, organizational  structure, funding, collection development and challenges among others. The paper concludes with  recommendations that funding library, training of library staff, and equipping the organization with modern  facilities with the managerial competence of librarian will help for smooth functioning of library.