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Performance Evaluation: An Essential Management Tool
Helps managers and supervisors get the most from the performance evaluation process. Explains
approaches to performance evaluation, suggests ways to use the evaluation process effectively to
manage performance, shows how to develop performance standards, and gives tips on
communicating performance results. International City/County Management Association.
Public Personnel Management: Contexts and Strategies
This comprehensive hard-bound text provides thorough coverage of all aspects of public personnel,
including the importance of law, the perspective of the individual employee, and the political
implications of public personnel activities. International Personnel Management Association.
RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Jones, H. G. Local Government Records: An Introduction to Their Management Preservation
and Use. American Association for State and Local History.
Only publication focusing primarily on local government records. Overview of the need for and
special problems of records management in municipal and county government. Also reviewed the
research uses of such records. A basic work to be read in conjunction with one of the other general
records management books.
Mims, Julian L., Records Management: A Practical Guide for Cities and Counties, International
City/County Management Association.
This practical guide addresses four basic questions which arise when a local government wants to
develop and implement a records management program: Where to begin? What must be done to
initiate and sustain a record management program? Where is there support for such a program?
What means should be taken to ensure a successful program?
Municipal Records Manual
Contains the Aofficial retention and disposition schedule@ for municipal records. Local Government
Records Committee, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administration publishes a Local
Government Records Technical Publication Series. To date, publications in this series are:
A Guide for the Selection and Development of Local Government Records Storage
Facilities
A Guide for Local Governments: Managing Records and Limited Resources
A Guide for Local Government: The Daily Management of Records and Information
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