Organization Theories and Collection Management in Libraries

 

Kanazawa, M. (1991). Organization Theories and Collection Management in Libraries. Collection Management., 14(1-2), 43–57. https://doi.org/10.1300/J105v14n01_03

Summary: 

        Kanazawa's article, Organization Theories, and Collection in Management in Libraries, is about collection management through organization theory. The article concludes that in smaller libraries, a part-time collection librarian is enough to manage the collections. In comparison, mid to more extensive size libraries need a separate library collection management division. 

Insight: 

One insight that I received from the article is that collection management functions, through the framework of organization theory, correspond to staff. I find this valuable information because I realize that more extensive libraries, like the Central Public Library in Los Angeles, has separate collection management division due to its amount of media it contains, while smaller, suburban libraries, like my local library, has part-time collection librarians who work other duties.