Run it like a library! It takes more talent and skill than managing a business.(blatant berry)

THE RECENT TURMOIL AMONG LIBRARY DIRECTORS, marked by the resignation of Mary Dempsey in Chicago, for example, demonstrates again that public administration requires deeper skill and talent than business management. Directing a public library is mostly public administration. (See "A Hard Act To Follow," Editorial, LJ 2/15/12, p. 8.) Top administrators face intense political pressure from all sides. They must be accountable to a swarm of elected officials, a dystopian diversity of constituencies, a gang of pressure groups, and, always, a huge gaggle of gadflies. The issues change with each new day and even more with every election.

The measures of library success are far more …