Practical Strategies for Academic Library Managers (eBook, ePUB)

Leading with Vision through All Levels
Redaktion: Wilkinson, Frances C.; Lubas, Rebecca L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216131328
• Artikelnr.: 68167780

Autorenporträt

Frances C. Wilkinson, EdD, MLS, is senior associate dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences and a professor of librarianship at the University of New Mexico. Rebecca L. Lubas, MLIS, is associate dean of the Claremont Colleges Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Foreword by Maureen Sullivan Introduction Chapter One:
Communicating and Implementing an Organization Vision Steven
Mandeville-Gamble Chapter Two: If It's Tuesday, It Must Be a Reorganization
Rebecca L. Lubas and Frances C. Wilkinson Chapter Three: Strategies for
Managing Human Resources Pat T. Hawthorne Chapter Four: Game of Funds:
Strategies for Strong and Healthy Budgets Susan E. Parker Chapter Five:
Marketing, Publicity, and Outreach Loreen Henry Chapter Six: Library
Buildings and Spaces Mary Ellen Spencer, Head and Sarah Barbara Watstein
Chapter Seven: Managing Library Information Technology Nina Davis-Millis
Chapter Eight: Blended Librarianship: What Every Academic Library Manager
Should Know Anne E. Pemberton Chapter Nine: Elements of Successful
Collaboration: Academic Libraries beyond Their Institutions Nancy Bolt
Index