Assessing Public Library Planning Process

Documents the development and use of the public library planning process and assesses its value, offering recommendations for improving the use of the process and for revising its planning manual, Planning and Role Setting for Public Libraries: A Manual of Options and Procedures . Reviews research on the effectiveness of the 1980 and 1987 versions of the manual and analyzes their differences, looking at librarians' satisfaction with the process and the manual. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.