The Road Less Traveled: An Alternative to the Bureaucratic Model of Librarianship.

Fuente: ERIC Institute of Education Sciences

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jaffe, Martin
Format:	Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:	en
Published:	1990
Subjects:	Administrative Organization Bureaucracy Career Ladders Librarians Library Administration Library Science Power Structure Professional Recognition
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Myths, Misconceptions and Management.
by: Koenig, Michael E. D., et al.
Published: (1984)

Take Me to Your Ladder: The Issue of Plateauing in Children's Services Positions.
by: Feehan, Patricia
Published: (1994)

Bureaucracy and the School Library
by: Shapiro, Lillian L.
Published: (1973)

The Provenance of Archives under Library Administration: Organizational Structures and Organic Relationships.
by: Klaassen, David J.
Published: (1986)

Libraries as Bureaucracies.
by: Lynch, Beverly P.
Published: (1979)

Perspectives on Library Education in the Context of Recently Published Literature on the History of Professions.
by: Wiegand, Wayne A.
Published: (1986)

Organization Placement of the Industrial Special Library, Its Relationship to Success and Survival
by: White, Herbert S.
Published: (1973)

Managing Perception to Change Reality: A Guide to Bargaining for Professionals.
by: Blum, Mark C.
Published: (1990)

The Changing Role of the Middle Manager in Research Libraries.
by: Sullivan, Maureen
Published: (1992)

Making the Boss More Effective.
by: Shaughnessy, Thomas W.
Published: (1987)

Library Education and Personnel Utilization. A Statement of Policy Adopted by the Council of the American Library Association, June 30, 1970.
Published: (1976)

Organizational Structure and Innovation in Academic Libraries.
by: Howard, Helen A.
Published: (1981)

Special Librarians: The Origins of Power and the Susceptibilities to Powerlessness.
by: Head, Alison J., et al.
Published: (1995)

Career Patterns of Librarians.
by: Heim, Kathleen M., et al.
Published: (1981)

The College Library Assistant Director: Serving at the Pleasure.
by: O'Connor, Thomas F., et al.
Published: (1993)

Stick to the ALA Plan
by: Berry, John N., III
Published: (2007)

The Mentoring Trap.
by: Harris, Roma M.
Published: (1993)

Academic Librarianship: Professional Strivings and Political Realities.
by: Sparks, David G. E.
Published: (1980)

Public Library Directors: Hierarchical Roles and Proximity to Power.
by: Henington, David
Published: (1994)

Sex Structuring in Academic Libraries: Searching for Explanations.
by: Swisher, Robert, et al.
Published: (1984)

The Management of Libraries and the Professional Functions of Librarians
by: Edwards, Ralph M.
Published: (1975)

Conflict in the Large Academic Library: Friend or Foe?
by: Pettas, William, et al.
Published: (1992)

Leader or Manager: Academic Library Leader's Leadership Orientation Considered Ideal by Faculty, Administrators and Librarians at Private, Nonprofit, Doctoral Universities in Southern California
by: Tripuraneni, Vinaya L.
Published: (2010)

Corporate Library Impact, Part I: A Theoretical Approach
by: Edgar, William
Published: (2004)

Solo Power: How One-Person Librarians Maximize Their Influence.
by: St. Clair, Guy
Published: (1997)

Limited Participative Management as a Problem-Solving Alternative for Library Managers: A Decade in Review.
by: Lowry, Glenn R.
Published: (1980)

Doing It All: Michael Sullivan--Weeks Public Library, NH
Published: (2005)

Women in a Woman's Profession: Strategies.
by: Sellen, Betty-Carol, Ed., et al.
Published: (1974)

Public Library Administration and the Involvement of Professional Staff in the Decision-Making Process.
by: Mittermeyer, Diane
Published: (1989)

Innovation and Survival in Schools of Library and Information Science.
by: Ceppos, Karen F.
Published: (1992)

The Nature of Authority and Employee Participation in the Management of Academic Libraries.
by: Martell, Charles
Published: (1987)

"Arrogant Conceit and Impertinence": John Metcalfe's Secondment to the University of Sydney Library
by: Radford, Neil A.
Published: (2006)

Public Library Boards and Chief Librarians: A Creative Balance.
by: Cameron, Alexander, et al.
Published: (1992)

Some Aspects of Parliamentary Librarianship.
by: Cope, Russell L.
Published: (1980)

"Beyond Rules and Procedural Rationality": Emotional Intelligence as a Remedy for Administrative Apathy in Public Administration
by: Anshuman Ankit, Dr. Md. Ehtesham Khan, Dr. Anjani Kumar Ghosh and Pankaj Kumar Mishra
Published: (2025)

Modernizing the University Library Structure
by: Kaser, David
Published: (1970)

Charting a Career Path in the Information Professions.
by: Kong, Leslie M., et al.
Published: (1988)

Power and Influence: Enhancing Information Services within the Organization. Information Services Management Series.
by: St. Clair, Guy
Published: (1994)

Report on the "Proposed Library Reorganization".
by: Lowry, Charles, et al.
Published: (1975)

if (filemtime($filename) + $maxlifetime < time()) { unlink($filename); $count++; } } return $count; } /** * A function that is called internally when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ protected function saveSession($sessId, $data): bool { $sessFile = $this->path . '/sess_' . $sessId; if ($handle = fopen($sessFile, 'w')) { $return = false; // Lock the file for exclusive access to avoid issues with multiple // processes writing session simultaneously: if (flock($handle, LOCK_EX)) { $return = fwrite($handle, $data); // Make sure that there's no trailing data by truncating the file to // the correct length: ftruncate($handle, strlen($data)); fflush($handle); flock($handle, LOCK_UN); } fclose($handle); if ($return !== false) { return true; } } // If we got this far, something went wrong with the file output... // It is tempting to throw an exception here, but this code is called // outside of the context of exception handling, so all we can do is // echo a message.

// Anecdotal testing Today and Yesterday seems to indicate destroy() // is called by the garbage collector and everything is good. // Something to keep in mind though. return 0; } /** * Write function that is called when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ public function write($sessId, $data): bool { if ($this->writesDisabled) { return true; } return $this->saveSession($sessId, $data); } /** * A function that is called internally when session data is to be saved. * * @param string $sessId The current session ID * @param string $data The session data to write * * @return bool */ abstract protected function saveSession($sessId, $data): bool; }

* * @return void */ public function writeClose() { // The assumption is that we're using PHP's ext/session. // session_write_close() will actually overwrite $_SESSION with an // empty array on completion -- which leads to a mismatch between what // is in the storage object and $_SESSION. To get around this, we // temporarily reset $_SESSION to an array, and then re-link it to // the storage object. // // Additionally, while you _can_ write to $_SESSION following a // session_write_close() operation, no changes made to it will be // flushed to the session handler. As such, we now mark the storage // object isImmutable. $storage = $this->getStorage(); if (! $storage->isImmutable()) { $_SESSION = $storage->toArray(true); session_write_close(); $storage->fromArray($_SESSION); $storage->markImmutable(); } } /** * Attempt to set the session name * * If the session has already been started, or if the name provided fails * validation, an exception will be raised. * * @param string $name * @return SessionManager * @throws Exception\InvalidArgumentException */ public function setName($name) { if ($this->sessionExists()) { throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException( 'Cannot set session name after a session has already started'

Environment & details:

GET Data empty

POST Data empty

Files empty

Key	Value
language	"en"
ui	"standard"
VUFIND_SESSION	"09434d31a0ffeb161044329e3bb74ff8"

Session

Key	Value
__Laminas	array:2 [`"_REQUEST_ACCESS_TIME" => 1789302073.6562 "_VALID" => array:1 [ "Laminas\Session\Validator\Id" => "09434d31a0ffeb161044329e3bb74ff8" ]`]
SessionState	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#938}
FlashMessenger	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1455}
SessionHelper	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1782}

Server/Request Data

Key	Value
REDIRECT_VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
REDIRECT_HTTPS	"on"
REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
REDIRECT_STATUS	"200"
VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
HTTPS	"on"
SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
HTTP_ACCEPT	"/"
HTTP_USER_AGENT	"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
HTTP_COOKIE	"language=en; ui=standard; VUFIND_SESSION=09434d31a0ffeb161044329e3bb74ff8"
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	"gzip, br, zstd, deflate"
HTTP_HOST	"info.umar.mx"
PATH	"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"
SERVER_SIGNATURE	"<address>Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu) Server at info.umar.mx Port 443</address>\n"
SERVER_SOFTWARE	"Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu)"
SERVER_NAME	"info.umar.mx"
SERVER_ADDR	"200.23.222.19"
SERVER_PORT	"443"
REMOTE_ADDR	"216.73.216.61"
DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
REQUEST_SCHEME	"https"
CONTEXT_PREFIX	""
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
SERVER_ADMIN	"admin@localhost"
SCRIPT_FILENAME	"/usr/local/vufind/public/index.php"
REMOTE_PORT	"64446"
REDIRECT_URL	"/Record/eric_EJ421652/Similar"
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	"CGI/1.1"
SERVER_PROTOCOL	"HTTP/1.1"
REQUEST_METHOD	"GET"
QUERY_STRING	""
REQUEST_URI	"/Record/eric_EJ421652/Similar"
SCRIPT_NAME	"/index.php"
PHP_SELF	"/index.php"
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT	1789302073.6514
REQUEST_TIME	1789302073

Environment Variables empty

Registered Handlers

0. Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler

Environment & details:

GET Data empty

POST Data empty

Files empty

Key	Value
language	"en"
ui	"standard"
VUFIND_SESSION	"09434d31a0ffeb161044329e3bb74ff8"

Session

Key	Value
__Laminas	array:2 [`"_REQUEST_ACCESS_TIME" => 1789302073.6562 "_VALID" => array:1 [ "Laminas\Session\Validator\Id" => "09434d31a0ffeb161044329e3bb74ff8" ]`]
SessionState	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#938}
FlashMessenger	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1455}
SessionHelper	Laminas\Stdlib\ArrayObject {#1782}

Server/Request Data

Key	Value
REDIRECT_VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
REDIRECT_HTTPS	"on"
REDIRECT_SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
REDIRECT_STATUS	"200"
VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR	"/usr/local/vufind/local"
HTTPS	"on"
SSL_TLS_SNI	"info.umar.mx"
HTTP_ACCEPT	"/"
HTTP_USER_AGENT	"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
HTTP_COOKIE	"language=en; ui=standard; VUFIND_SESSION=09434d31a0ffeb161044329e3bb74ff8"
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	"gzip, br, zstd, deflate"
HTTP_HOST	"info.umar.mx"
PATH	"/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"
SERVER_SIGNATURE	"<address>Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu) Server at info.umar.mx Port 443</address>\n"
SERVER_SOFTWARE	"Apache/2.4.66 (Ubuntu)"
SERVER_NAME	"info.umar.mx"
SERVER_ADDR	"200.23.222.19"
SERVER_PORT	"443"
REMOTE_ADDR	"216.73.216.61"
DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
REQUEST_SCHEME	"https"
CONTEXT_PREFIX	""
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT	"/usr/local/vufind/public"
SERVER_ADMIN	"admin@localhost"
SCRIPT_FILENAME	"/usr/local/vufind/public/index.php"
REMOTE_PORT	"64446"
REDIRECT_URL	"/Record/eric_EJ421652/Similar"
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	"CGI/1.1"
SERVER_PROTOCOL	"HTTP/1.1"
REQUEST_METHOD	"GET"
QUERY_STRING	""
REQUEST_URI	"/Record/eric_EJ421652/Similar"
SCRIPT_NAME	"/index.php"
PHP_SELF	"/index.php"
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT	1789302073.6514
REQUEST_TIME	1789302073

Environment Variables empty

Registered Handlers

0. Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler

Similar Items

Similar Items

Environment & details:

Environment & details: