Mistakes In Academic Library Management
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| Author | : Jack E. Fritts Jr. |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 141 |
| Release | : 2009-09-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0810867451 |
Mistakes in Academic Library Management: Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them addresses the most common library management issues, examining mistakes that anyone in a library management position could make, coupled with suggestions for how the issue could be better handled or avoided. The result is the recognition and formation of tools to aid developing managers in identifying potential pitfalls. Jack E. Fritts Jr. addresses a range of management issues, including campus politics, communication, information technology, staff, and planning. There is also a chapter that addresses library management from the perspective of a chief academic officer. All those in library management positions, or who aspire to library management positions, will profit from the discussions of common but potentially severe mistakes in library management presented in this book.
| Author | : Frances C. Wilkinson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2015-11-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
Looking for tips on how to work towards your overall vision while remaining productive on the frontlines? The book gives you fresh ideas for balancing your managerial duties with day-to-day responsibilities in the academic library. A compilation of ideas from noted leaders in academic librarianship, this book explores a wealth of topics, including budgeting, human resources, facilities, collections, and IT. There is also helpful advice that will help you navigate emerging areas of librarianship, such as blended librarianship, cross-institutional collaboration, and marketing the library. You will learn how to manage, lead, and address specific library areas—all at once. Practical Strategies for Academic Library Managers: Leading with Vision through All Levels is ideal for current professionals with an expanded scope of responsibilities and those who have had administrative duties for some time, but are looking for new techniques for being a better manager. The book includes an introduction written by the editors, who are both associate deans in university libraries. Each chapter is written by a different expert in the field, providing a rich array of approaches and perspectives.
| Author | : Bryce Nelson |
| Publisher | : American Library Association |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2014-06-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0838912370 |
The daily administration of an academic library often leaves you needing quick advice on the topic at hand. Nelson, an experienced administrator writing from first-hand knowledge, delivers such advice in 30 topical chapters.
| Author | : Janneka Guise |
| Publisher | : Chandos Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2015-10-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0128023724 |
Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The literature review demonstrates the lack of reported succession planning activities in Canadian academic libraries. Site visits and in-depth interviews with professional librarians at six libraries across Canada highlight best practices and barriers to succession planning. These best practices and barriers are addressed in individual chapters, with tips and strategies for library leaders. - Focuses on the Canadian academic library - Includes a comprehensive literature review on succession planning in academic libraries - Provides evidence-based approach to why succession planning is or is not happening in Canadian academic libraries
| Author | : Tammy Nickelson Dearie |
| Publisher | : American Library Association |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2018-12-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0838915590 |
What does successful academic library management look like in the real world? A team of editors, all administrators at large research libraries, here present a selection of case studies which dive deeply into the subject to answer that question. Featuring contributions from a range of practicing academic library managers, this book spotlights case studies equally useful for LIS students and current managers;touches upon such key issues as human resource planning, public relations, financial management, organizational culture, and ethics and confidentiality;examines how to use project management methodology to reorganize technical services, create a new liaison service model, advance a collaborative future, and set up on-the-spot mentoring;discusses digital planning for archives and special collections;rejects "one size fits all" solutions to common challenges in academic libraries in favor of creative problem solving; andprovides guidance on how to use case studies as effective models for positive change at one's own institution. LIS instructors, students, and academic library practitioners will all find enrichment from this selection of case studies.
| Author | : Amanda Gluibizzi |
| Publisher | : Facet Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1856047024 |
While much attention has been paid to art librarianship as it exists in museum settings, comparatively less notice has been taken of academic and art-and-design-school art librarianship as a distinct focus. However, the skills of subject specialists in the arts and their advocacy on behalf of their users are fundamental elements in vital art libraries that fully support and anticipate the needs of artists, designers, architects, and the historians who study these disciplines. Put together by an international team of contributors, this essential handbook examines methods of innovative librarianship in academic and art school libraries throughout the world. With a focus on the intersection of best practice and best opportunities, the book brings together the philosophies and realities of the most creative librarians working in the field of art librarianship today and serves as a field guide to academic art libraries in the twenty-first century. Key discussions include: the role of liaison to the visual arts visual literacy for highly literate viewers art history pedagogy and special collections technology in an art and design library collection management, renewal, and de-accession new forms of scholarly communication and their impact on art librarianship the making of the 21st century art library. Readership: This timely book is essential reading for all information professionals working in art and design environments. It will also be of interest to students of librarianship interested in the challenges currently facing professionals working in this specialized area.
| Author | : Paul Glassman |
| Publisher | : Facet Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2017-10-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1783302003 |
The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship integrates theory and practice to offer guidelines for information professionals working in art and design environments who need to support and anticipate the information needs of artists, designers, architects and the historians who study those disciplines. Since the first edition of this title, the world of art and design libraries has been transformed by rapid advances in technology, an explosion in social media and the release of new standards and guidelines. This new edition, offering mostly entirely new chapters, provides an accessible, fully updated, guide to the world of academic art and design libraries from a range of international experts who reflect current practice at a global level. Coverage includes: case studies and library profiles, providing benchmarks for developing facilitiesteaching and learning, including the ACRL Framework, teaching with specialcollections, meta-literacies, instructional design and cultural differencesdevelopments in institutional repositories, digital humanities and makerspacescontemporary library design, spaces for collaboration and sustainability. This book will be useful reading for students taking library and information science courses in art librarianship, special collections, and archives, as well as practising library and information professionals in art and design school libraries, art museum libraries and public libraries.
| Author | : Michael Bemis |
| Publisher | : American Library Association |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2014-03-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0838996051 |
This unique annotated bibliography is a complete, up-to-date guide to sources of information on library science, covering recent books, monographs, periodicals and websites, and selected works of historical importance.
| Author | : Mark Kretovics |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2019-11-28 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0429801629 |
Within higher education, power is often perceived negatively. Rather than avoiding the idea of power, this book explores the importance of embracing and effectively engaging power to affect positive change on campus. Understanding Power and Leadership in Higher Education gives college and university administrators the tools to understand the relationship between leadership, power, and influence within higher education. Highlighting real stories of effective college and university administrators, this book helps readers understand and analyze the use of power, preparing leaders for the realities of today’s administrative environment.
| Author | : Kay Ann Cassell |
| Publisher | : American Library Association |
| Total Pages | : 630 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 155570865X |
As librarians experience a changing climate for all information services professionals, Cassell and Hiremath provide the tools needed to manage the ebb and flow of changing reference services in the 21st century.
