Reviews for Family relationships

The average rating for Family relationships based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-24 00:00:00 William Bright This was one of the recommended readings for my Information management and policy class. When I first started this class I thought it'd be a lot of boring stuff about actual management issues but it turned out to be quite interesting, looking at things such as copyright law and collection management and development. This book however was all the boring things I thought the class would be about. I really wouldn't recommend this book to library students unless they want to be information managers in a company. (A job I am certain I do not want) It's not about managing information within a library context but really just about organisation management. It talks about doing an information audit, and then how to implement an information strategy within an organisation. It is very management theory and very little library theory. In the second half of case studies only 2 of the examples are libraries, but the studies could be about any organisation. While I think an information strategy is something that most companies should have it's something I have very little interest in. I was hoping this book would be good background reading for my essay but I don't think it was. There were also little things that annoyed me like the use of the word "culture" referring to an individual company. Which I know lots of people do but it really bothers me. The other problem was use of "Western culture" in places where they really meant everyone, such as "Western culture does not like failure" (because the rest of the world does?) Definitely one for managers not librarians in my opinion.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-14 00:00:00 Alonzo Arellano Interesting book about the rise and fall of the J. Peterman Company. Written as part biography, part philosphy, and part business book. Filled with interesting quotes and ideas. I the parts dealing with how they aquired the catalog items and the history of the company. The business aspects put me to sleep though.