This essential guide to public library management will inspire and motivate managers to be confident and resilient in times of challenge, whilst maintaining a forward-thinking and quality-based ethos. Effective Skills for the Modern Public Library Manager will be a future-proof guide for managers navigating the ever-changing landscape of the public library environment, providing the tools, projections and reflections to enable managers who will be the leaders of library services in future to maintain core values intrinsic to public library services whilst managing to redefine the landscape, rather than be redefined by it. The book will give managers insights in to new territories and new problems, establishing a toolbox with which to be more prepared, more consistent with international practices which have been seen to work and, when presented together, provide a fresh and cohesive perspective on how the public library may operate successfully amid economic, technological and political change.