ABSTRACT
Personnel administration is simply the management of people at work. It is often referred to as “human resources management,’’ both to stress the point that humans are involved and to indicate that people are generally an organization’s most valuable resource. Even in libraries, which are commonly thought of as mere aggregations of books and other materials, we know that salaries and benefits are often the greatest single cost of operation, and that only people can translate the potentially useful store of materials and information into a tool of actual benefit for the average student and scholar.
