Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries

Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries
Author: Kelly Blessinger
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1780633688

Workplace culture refers to conditions that collectively influence the work atmosphere. These can include policies, norms, and unwritten standards for behavior. This book focuses on various aspects of workplace culture in academic libraries from the practitioners' viewpoint, as opposed to that of the theoretician. The book asks the following questions: What conditions contribute to an excellent academic library work environment? What helps to make a particular academic library a great place to work? Articles focus on actual programs while placing the discussion in a scholarly context. The book is structured into 14 chapters, covering various aspects of workplace culture in academic libraries, including: overview of workplace culture, assessment, recruitment, acclimation for new librarians, workforce diversity, physical environment, staff morale, interaction between departments, tenure track/academic culture, mentoring/coaching, generational differences, motivation/incentives, complaints/conflict management, and organizational transparency. - Includes the most current best practices and models in academic libraries - Represents the viewpoints of both the employee and manager - Focuses on the academic library as workplace rather than as a service provider

Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership

Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership
Author: Alma Ortega
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0081006500

Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership examines a phenomenon that has yet to be seriously explored. While other so-called feminized professions, such as nursing, have been studied for their tendency to create toxic leadership environments, thus far academic librarianship has not. This book focuses on how to identify a toxic leader in an academic library setting, how to address toxic leadership, and how to work toward eradicating it from the organization. In addition, it discusses which steps can be used to prevent libraries from hiring toxic leaders. - Presents original research based on a two-phase study about toxic leadership in academic libraries - Demonstrates how to identify toxic leadership in libraries - Shows how toxic leadership can manifest itself, providing the reader with steps to eradicate it

The Dysfunctional Library

The Dysfunctional Library
Author: Jo Henry
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838916708

By tackling the dysfunctional library head on, managers as well as library workers who find themselves in a toxic situation will be poised to better meet library goals and move the library forward.

Leading Libraries

Leading Libraries
Author: Wyoma vanDuinkerken
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838913172

This valuable resource gathers the principles and best practices of leadership, and points the way towards creating a service culture that makes every staff member a library leader.

Leading Change in Academic Libraries

Leading Change in Academic Libraries
Author: Catherine Cardwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN: 9780838947692

"Institutions of higher education and academic libraries are not the traditional organizations they once were. They are subject to a variety of forces, including shifting and changing populations, technological changes, public demands for affordability and accountability, and changing approaches to research and learning. Academic libraries can no longer establish their excellence and ground their missions, visions, and strategic directions using the old means and methods. Leading Change in Academic Libraries is a collection of 20 change stories authored by academic librarians from different types of four-year institutions. Librarians tell the story firsthand of how they managed major change in processes, functions, services, programs, or overall organizations using John Kotter's Eight-Stage Process of Creating Major Change as a framework for examining change at their institutions, measuring their successes and areas for improvement, and determining progress. In five sections--strategic planning, reorganization, culture change, new roles, and technological change--chapters discuss tackling common challenges such as fear, anxiety, change fatigue, complacency, unexpected changes of leadership, vacancies, and resistance; look at the results of their tactics; and provide effective practices they found. Each section ends with a thorough analysis of the stories within and the most effective tips for leading that kind of change. Leading Change in Academic Libraries can help you establish flexible, nimble, and collaborative decision-making processes, and facilitate the transition from legacy collections-based libraries to forward-looking service-based libraries"--from the ALA website.

Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Author: Corliss Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2022-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780838939109

"[T]he diversity of perspectives presented within this publication will build on the reader's existing knowledge to bring nuances and alternative approaches to these enduring, seemingly intractable challenges within the LIS profession and within society." --from the Foreword by Mark A. Puente Academic library workers often make use of systemic, bureaucratic, political, collegial, and symbolic dimensions of organizational behavior to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, but many are also doing the crucial work of pushing back at the structures surrounding them in ways small and large. Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion captures emerging practices that academic libraries and librarians can use to create more equitable and representative institutions. 19 chapters are divided into 6 sections: Recruitment, Retention and Promotion Professional Development Leveraging Collegial Networks Reinforcing the Message Organizational Change Assessment Chapters cover topics including active diversity recruitment strategies; inclusive hiring; gendered ageism; librarians with disabilities; diversity and inclusion with student workers; residencies and retention; creating and implementing a diversity strategic plan; cultural competency training; libraries' responses to Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action; and accountability and assessment. Authors provide practical guiding principles, effective practices, and sample programs and training. Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion explores how academic libraries have leveraged and deployed their institutions' resources to effect DEI improvements while working toward implementing systemic solutions. It provides means and inspiration for continuing to try to hire, retain, and promote the change we want to see in the world regardless of existing structures and systems, and ways to improve those structures and systems for the future.

Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries

Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries
Author: Megan Lotts
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838949474

This book shows academic and public libraries the many benefits of nurturing a culture of creativity, offering hands-on guidance on encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration, launching active-learning events that highlight collections and services, fostering goodwill and trust-building, and forming partnerships that promote library visibility.

The Changing Academic Library

The Changing Academic Library
Author: John Budd
Publisher: Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838983188

"The Changing Academic Library is a revision of Budd's The Academic Library: Its Context, Its Purpose, and Its Operation. This book has been completely updated and revised to reflect the dynamic states of higher education and academic libraries. It presents a critical examination of major issues facing colleges and universities and the unique challenges that their libraries must come to grips with. Current practice is reviewed, but it is examined in the broader context of educational needs, scholarly communication, politics and economics, technology, and the nature of complex organizations."--Publisher's description.

Advances in Library Administration and Organization

Advances in Library Administration and Organization
Author: Delmus E. Williams
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1784419095

Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a range of diverse and reflective essays to provide strategies that will be of value in addressing challenges faced by current and future library managers.

Leadership in Academic Libraries Today

Leadership in Academic Libraries Today
Author: Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1442232609

Leadership in Academic Libraries highlights model examples of the move from leadership theory into actual practice. A consideration of leadership theories provides a working vocabulary to facilitate discussions of abstract concepts, while specific topical investigations and case studies illustrate those concepts and show the manner in which theories play out in practice. Chapter authors speak from experience as well as theoretical grounding, and include practitioners, researchers, and formal and informal leaders. Topics include transformational leadership across generations; developing a research agenda in library leadership; methodologies for studying library leadership; connections between leadership models and library-focused research; engaging with business, psychology, and educational administration literature; leadership styles; organizational culture; the role of mentoring in leadership; and the role of women in academic library leadership. Two chapters highlight the dichotomy between positional leadership and socially constructed leadership roles. The research methods used include case study, survey, and action research. Extensive bibliographies for each chapter provide a solid foundation for further research.