Robert P. Holley

The Contrarian Manager (eBook, ePUB)

Collected Columns

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book on library management presents a contrarian view with a humanities focus that reflects author's decades of practical experience as library manager and professor of library science. It presents author's thoughts on teaching management to library science students, his management philosophy and practical advice for library managers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000804546
• Artikelnr.: 66023110

Autorenporträt

Robert P. Holley has had a long career of almost 50 years as a Library Manager, Department Chair, and Library Science Professor at Yale University, the University of Utah, and Wayne State University, USA. He has been a prolific author with over 230 entries in Google Scholar and six edited books.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Library Education 1. Why Don't Library Science Students Want to
Become Managers? 2. Providing LIS Students with Management Skills 3. The
Challenges of Teaching the Introductory LIS Management Course 4. Thoughts
on Online Teaching with A Focus on Management 5. Competition, Grading, and
Group Work: The Path to Cooperation 6. Bridging the Differences Between IT
and LIS in Management Education 7. The Value of Fiction as Management
Training 8. Interview with Dr. Ken Haycock Part 2: Management Philosophy
9. The Contrarian Manager: The Importance of Alternative Viewpoints 10.
Managing Irrationality 11. Contradictory Advice - A Basic Examination of
Decision Making 12. Cognitive Dissonance: A Barrier to Effective Management
13. Academic Library Users Are Not "Customers": A Response to Steven Bell
Part 3: Practical Library Management 14. Library Planning and Budgeting: A
Few Underappreciated Principles 15. Don't Fear the Union: Successful
Management in A Unionized Library 16. Promotion: An Intractable Management
Problem for Academic and Public Libraries 17. First Class Tickets-Perks and
Library Management 18. Search Committees: When Members Disagree on the
Relative Importance of Candidate Qualifications