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Highlights some important conditions, both present and future, which will have an impact on public libraries. Discusses holding down expenses, including user fees, alternative funding sources, and private cosponsorship of programs; increasing productivity; use of computers and new technologies; staff development and internal marketing; improving services; and working with the community. (Author/LRW)

This article, based on national research, is adapted from the chapter 'The Future of Homeland Security, ' by Roger L. Kemp, in R. L. Kemp (ed.), Homeland Security: Best Practices [...]

AFTER three decades of reform in China, the level of urbanization has increased substantially. In 2006, China's national urban population was over 577,000,000, with a national urbanization rate of 43.9 [...]

Editor's Note: There has been increasing debate in Britain about the physical condition of most large cities. The election in May of a Tory, Boris Johnson, as Mayor of London [...]

MERIDEN, Connecticut, is a city of just under 60,000 located in the middle of the state between New Haven and Hartford. I serve as the city manager and, like other [...]

Municipal building departments are compelled to rethink their management practices in view of the fact that their financial resources are diminishing while public demand for more and better services is growing. To be able to provide quality services on small budgets, these departments have started to develop and implement creative and innovative approaches to management. Some of these practices and techniques include increasing fees for public services, public auctioning of surplus properties, manpower sharing between municipalities, increased utilization of part-time employees, cross-training of personnel, centralization of cash management, and use of fiscal impact analysis to determine the merits of development proposals.

County government traces its roots back centuries to the English shire, which served as the administrative arm of the national government and also as the citizens' local government. The original [...]

All levels of government in the United States are facing a new era of capital financing and infrastructure management. Revenues that once were available for capital construction, restoration, and maintenance [...]

The county, still evolving, traces its roots back to the English shire of centuries past. The shire served a dual function. It was the administrative arm of the national government [...]

As financial times become tighter and dwindling resources are stretched, recreational administrators are looking at ways to maintain services and provide additional services without requiring more funds. Several creative management techniques and approaches that can be used are described. (CJ)