The Associate University Librarian Handbook

Author : Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810883826

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The Associate University Librarian Handbook by Bradford Lee Eden Pdf

The associate university librarian is tasked with running the various services and workflows of academic research libraries, allowing the head university librarian to focus on the acquisition of resources through fundraising and external public relations. Although the positions of assistant or associate university librarians and deans are considered a training ground for upward movement in the profession, there are surprisingly few mentoring experiences available. The Associate University Librarian Handbook: A Resource Guide looks to change that. Bradford Lee Eden has brought together a variety of helpful topics for university librarians. The first section provides a broad overview of the field and what it means to be an associate librarian. A section on managing change, a topic endemic to the academic library in these times, follows. The next section deals with the question of funding the library enterprise and managing resources, with chapters on how best to handle budget reductions, cultivating donors and donor relations, and managing a research function. The fourth section covers career management, and includes chapters on navigating the transition to university librarian. A concluding section deals with leadership and defining the future. Intended for both those in the position of associate university librarian and for those aspiring to get there, The Associate University Librarian Handbook will be a valuable tool and guide.

Author : Corliss Lee,Brian Lym,Tatiana Bryant,Jonathan Cain,Kenneth Schlesinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0838939104

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Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Corliss Lee,Brian Lym,Tatiana Bryant,Jonathan Cain,Kenneth Schlesinger Pdf

"[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.

Author : Bryce Nelson
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838912362

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The Academic Library Administrator's Field Guide by Bryce Nelson Pdf

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 : Carl Antonucci,Sharon Clapp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442279032

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The LITA Leadership Guide by Carl Antonucci,Sharon Clapp Pdf

The LITA Leadership Guide from the American Library Association division charged with information technology brings together three important professional development topics -- leadership, entrepreneurship, and technology -- in one volume, uniting theory, practice, and case studies from experienced colleagues in the field. Topics include: cultivating creativity, career pivots, forecasting and planning for change, keeping tech and leadership skills ahead of the curve, and incorporating lessons and knowledge from across sectors. Additional concepts include: professional development, evaluating risk, overcoming barriers to innovation, and seeding success in your career and organization. The book will help librarians at every level of the career ladder and will supplement leadership and skill-based training workshops. Library leadership teams interested in the development of their staff as a means of improving their organizational performance will find this book to provide context for growth, training, and collaboration. This book provides big-picture concepts that affect the many stages of a librarian’s career: •“Librarian as Leader”, • “Librarian as Entrepreneur”, and •“Librarian as Technologist” and thus is suitable for staff development, discussion groups, or courses. This LITA Guide will help librarians understand how to chart their career development across these three foundational platforms, and become familiar with how peers have successfully created positive change for themselves, and their libraries, as leaders, entrepreneurs, and technologists

Author : Bradford Lee Eden,Jody Condit Fagan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442232600

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Leadership in Academic Libraries Today by Bradford Lee Eden,Jody Condit Fagan Pdf

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.

Author : Claire McGuinness
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783304622

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The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook by Claire McGuinness Pdf

The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is a comprehensive resource for academic library professionals and LIS students looking to pursue a teaching role in their work and to develop this aspect of their professional lives in a holistic way throughout their careers. The book is built around the core ideas of reflective self-development and informed awareness of one’s personal professional landscape. Through engaging with a series of exercises and reflective pauses in each chapter, readers are encouraged to reflect on their professional identity, self-image, self-efficacy and progress as they consider each of the different aspects of the teaching role. This handbook will: - provide a comprehensive resource on teaching, professional development and reflective practice for academic teaching librarians at all stages of their careers - explore the current landscape of teaching librarianship in higher education, and highlight the important developments, issues and trends that are shaping current and future practice - examine the roles and responsibilities of the academic teaching librarian in the digital era - introduce the essential areas of development, skill and knowledge that will empower current and future professionals in the role - inspire prospective and current academic teaching librarians to adopt a broad conception of the role that goes beyond the basic idea of classroom-based teaching, and provide practical tools to engage in personal development and career planning in this area. The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook is an indispensable reference, suitable for early career professionals at the start of their teaching journey, as well as mid- or late-career librarians who may have moved into leadership and managerial roles and who wish to advance their teaching role to the next level.

Author : Melissa K. Aho,Erika Bennett
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781780634364

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The Machiavellian Librarian by Melissa K. Aho,Erika Bennett Pdf

Do librarians ‘rock the boat’? Do they challenge those around them to win influence and advantage? Why is it that librarians are little found on the ‘influence’ grid of personality assessment tests? The Machiavellian Librarian offers real life examples of librarians who use their knowledge and skill to project influence, and turn the tide in their, and their library’s, favor. Authors offer first hand and clear examples to help librarians learn to use their influence effectively, for the betterment of their library and their career. Opening chapters cover visualizing data, as well as networking and strategic alignment. Following chapters discuss influence without authority-making fierce allies, communicating results in accessible language and user-centered planning. Closing chapters address using accreditation and regulation reporting to better position the library, as well as political positioning and outcome assessment. Throws the spotlight on librarian’s professional and personality traits, many of which are deleterious to the long-term viability of library funding Shows how best to boost the value proposition of libraries, through enhanced influence Includes how-to chapters on influencing others in the organization

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781785604980

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Library Staffing for the Future by Anonim Pdf

This latest volume contains approaches from researchers around the world. The chapters explore such issues as skills-building and other professional development activities, changing demographic profiles of staff, changing modes of resource provision, succession planning, remote work, and planning for Linked Data.

Author : Michael A. Crumpton,Nora J. Bird
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610693462

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Handbook for Community College Librarians by Michael A. Crumpton,Nora J. Bird Pdf

An in-depth understanding of the complexities, dynamics, and emerging trends in community college libraries today. Handbook for Community College Librarians covers all aspects of librarianship that apply to community colleges in a one-stop reference book. It provides information that enables the librarian to become more successful in the community college environment and reflects on its unique qualities, identifying the specific skills required and the differences from other library settings. The authors address instructional design and highlight the distinctions in the types of information literacy appropriate to the specialized curriculum and certification needs of a community college. Besides being an outstanding professional development tool, this handbook will also be useful to library and information science students studying service in community college libraries as a career option.

Author : Leo Appleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000352146

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Positioning the Academic Library within the University by Leo Appleton Pdf

Academic libraries are facing uncertain times. The international higher education environment is very volatile and academic libraries and librarians can play a major role in helping to strategically position their parent institution within it. In doing so, there needs to be clarity as to what the position of the academic library is with regard to the role and function it has within the university and how library leadership can have pan-institutional influence and impact. There are several ways in which the academic library can position itself and this collection demonstrates many of these. Strategic alignment with the university and its mission is a fundamental part of successful positioning, as is being flexible, adaptable and responsive to changing needs, requirements and expectations. Developments in research support and scholarly communications, as well as super-convergences with other academic support departments, are examples of such responsiveness. These topics along with other emerging themes, such as library functions and institutional partnerships and collaborations, are all discussed in the book and provide the reader with a rich variety of reflections and case studies on how academic libraries, from across the globe, have addressed their position within their institution. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal New Review of Academic Librarianship.

Author : Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442266933

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Envisioning Our Preferred Future by Bradford Lee Eden Pdf

Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces, cooperative virtual reference services, directions on research in the 21st-century academic library, innovative uses of physical library spaces, uses of social media for disseminating scholarly research, information architecture and usability studies, the importance of special collections and archival collections, and lessons learned in digitization and digital projects planning and management. Data management services are highlighted in the context of a consortium of smaller liberal arts and regional institutions who share a common institutional repository. Survey research plays a role in a number of chapters. One provides insight into how academic libraries are currently approaching web services, web applications, and library websites. A second survey is used to explore the role of librarians as web designers, and provides detailed information related to job titles, job duties, time percentages related to duties, and other duties outside of web design. Comments of those surveyed are included and make interesting reading and a deeper understanding of this new function in libraries. More generally, is a survey study exploring how librarians feel about the changes that are currently happening within the profession, as well as how these changes have personally affected their job duties and their current job assignments. Case studies are include one that features QuestionPoint in the context of a cooperative virtual reference service; another shows how research and scholarship can be disseminated using social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar, among others; a other studies explore the importance of user engagement and buy-in before moving forward on digitization; and one shows how information architecture and usability emerge from the redesign of a public library website and whose successful completion involves user surveying, focus groups, peer site reviews, needs analysis, and usability testing. Two chapters deal with the changing legal context: the importance and understanding of copyright and author rights in the 21st-century academic library, and the basics Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

Author : David F. Kohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Librarians
ISBN : UOM:39015010543497

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Library Education and Professional Issues by David F. Kohl Pdf

Author : Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis,Stacey L. Bowers,Christopher Hudson,Claire Williamson,Joanne Patrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781591588726

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Librarian's Handbook for Seeking, Writing, and Managing Grants by Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis,Stacey L. Bowers,Christopher Hudson,Claire Williamson,Joanne Patrick Pdf

Learn the dynamics of the grant-seeking process, including proposal writing and grant management, for public, school, and academic librarians. A comprehensive book that covers the full spectrum of the grant process, Librarian's Handbook for Seeking, Writing, and Managing Grants is designed to provide all the information necessary for librarians and educators to become effective members of grant-development and management teams. Written in an easy-to-understand, succinct format, it will be invaluable even for those with little or no background knowledge and regardless of the size or type of library or information center. Recognizing that grants are developed through a sequential process, the volume focuses on the fundamental components of grant planning, grant writing, and grant management. Readers will learn to identify potential federal and state funding sources, organize and manage the proposal development process, do research, and establish and encourage participation on local development teams. They will also learn about specific aspects of grant management, such as budget and finance monitoring; hiring; research compliance and policies; sub-agreements and partnership forms; and reporting requirements.

Author : Steven J. Bell,John D. Shank
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0838909396

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Academic Librarianship by Design by Steven J. Bell,John D. Shank Pdf

Scenarios, case studies, and profiles throughout illustrate the successes that real "blended librarians" are having on campuses. This practical, hands-on guide expands the possibilities for academic librarians in public service, reference, instruction, information literacy, and even library and information science students.

Author : Jo Bell Whitlatch,Susan E. Searing
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838919958

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Guide to Reference in Essential General Reference and Library Science Sources by Jo Bell Whitlatch,Susan E. Searing Pdf

Ideal for public, school, and academic libraries looking to freshen up their reference collection, as well as for LIS students and instructors conducting research, this resource collects the cream of the crop sources of general reference and library science information.