| dc.description.abstract | Because of the wide acceptance and rapid expansion
of programs in continuing education, greater demands
are being placed on peripheral institutions acting as
service organizations to this dynamic educational movement.
In the area of para-educational professions, librarianship
is perhaps the one most heavily strained in its efforts to
meet the increasing demands for services and personnel.
With augmented services, enlarged facilities and up-dated
methods of production are needed much more, and both of
these depend not only on more staff members but also on
more competent performance on their part. Since it is
difficult to staff libraries with all the professional
personnel deemed advisable, the problem has been remedied,
to some extent, by employing technical personnel, who are
either trained on the job or complete courses for library
technicians offered by vocational institutions.
As the relationship of administrators with professional
and technical employees is different from that
with hourly wage earners, the experience of the members
of the proression ought to be one or the most reliable
sources to provide guidelines ror productive development.The responsibility for the projection of worthy professional
standards is vested in the professional membership, and the
transmission of an accurate and well-defined image could
possibly be accomplished through a perceptive and understanding
relationship between superordinate and subordinate personnel.
It has been postulated by J.W. Getzels that "the
nature of this relationship is the crucial factor in the
administrative process."1
1. J.W. Getzels, "Administration as a Social Process,n
W.G. Bennis, K.D. Benne and R. Chin, The Planning of Change,
New York, Holt, Rinehart and winston, 1964, P. 377. | en_US |
