DAVID C . WEBER The Dynamics of the Library Environment for Professional Staff Growth

A DIRECTOR OF A UNIVERSITY LffiRARY has many problems. Besides financial problems, he must decide how to build collections, what resources in the collections can best serve faculty and students, what kind of bibliographical control must be provided, how to cope with the growth of collections and building problems that ensue, how to make more effective public services, how to provide instruction in library use, and much more. Each of these decisions, furthermore, is dependent on persons for their management: the library staff is ultimately responsible for creating book collections and providing catalogs and services. The people form themselves into an organization having common goals, .and it is through people that goals can be achieved. Despite the great amount of literature on library personnel issues, little attention has been given to the specific topic of how the library personnel environment itself can contribute to the development of professional staff. It is necessary to examine how the organization can