Download or read book Library Leadership Your Way written by Jason Martin and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jason Martin won't tell you how to be a leader. Instead, he’ll give you a roadmap and the tools to find it out for yourself, guiding you to discover why you want to lead, how you can best lead, and what your own unique leadership practice looks like.

Download or read book Lessons in Library Leadership written by Corey Halaychik and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons in Library Leadership: A Primer for Library Managers and Unit Leaders takes on the topic of management positions within libraries and how many of them are filled by candidates with no formalized training. This lack of preparation often leads to added stress as they scramble to learn how to lead, to formulate departmental goals, to conduct effective assessment, to think and plan strategically, to counsel employees, and much more. This book will serve equally as a primer for librarians new to management and those needing a refresher in basic management concepts. Seasoned managers may also look to this guide as a quick reference resource covering multiple management subjects. The contents of the monograph include basic concepts, real word examples/case studies, and bibliographic information for further management skill development. - Ideal for both new and currently practicing library managers and leaders - Written from a librarian's point of view - Includes examples directly related to libraries - Combines theory and real-world examples in new and innovative ways

Download or read book The Many Faces of School Library Leadership written by Sharon Coatney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised with even more contributions added by practicing school librarians, this book further examines the responsibility to lead in many areas and identifies the real-world, day-to-day application of established theory and best practices. In today's educational landscape, school librarians need to lead the way in many areas, including advocacy, literacy, technology, curriculum, vision, collaborative instruction, and intellectual freedom. All of these areas are vital to building and sustaining a school library program that enhances and encourages student achievement, as well as to providing enhanced services to students and faculty. This revised edition of The Many Faces of School Library Leadership offers invaluable insights from recognized leaders in the field of school librarianship that detail leadership roles embraced by accomplished practitioners and consider the research regarding best practices. An essential read for practicing school librarians as well as for pre-service school librarians, it offers today's school librarians actionable advice for strengthening their roles, underlining their value, and protecting their future—all while boosting student learning and achievement. The expert guidance and perspectives in this book will bolster those who are facing enormous challenges to meet them and allow school library staff to protect their jobs and to save school library programs from extinction.

Download or read book Leading Libraries How to Create a Service Culture written by Wyoma vanDuinkerken and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality leadership is integral to the very future of our profession. And it doesn't only come from the top down. Effective leadership is customer-focused and collaborative, fostering a service culture that invites the involvement of individuals in every part and at every level of the organization, as the authors persuasively demonstrate in this practical new book. Drawing from case studies as well as the literature of business and social sciences, the authors provide guidance on how to apply the values of service leadership to both public and academic libraries. Through the use of examples, exercises, and tools for development, this book walks readers through the steps needed to create a sustainable, service-oriented model by Explaining how a service culture reaches beyond the individual leader with positional authority and extends to all individualsShowing ways to build rapport and trust within an organization, and how to balance encouragement with accountabilityDetailing strategic thinking and planning methods that will lead to improvements in customer service, human resources, organizational development, and trainingHelping library leaders create a sustainable service culture through codifying their organization’s values, with advice on policies and procedures such as recruitment, performance evaluation, compensation, and succession planningDiscussing the environment of change in libraries, showing how a library’s organizational culture is at the center of being responsive and staying relevantThis 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.

Download or read book Making a Difference written by Peter Hernon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is separate from, but integral to, management; and library directors today and for the foreseeable future can be expected to play an institutional role as they lead the library to contribute towards the mission of their college and university. Similarly, new courses in library leadership now accompany more traditional ones on managing organizations and information resources. However, much of the literature on LIS leadership represents a distilled application of principles and practices borrowed from other disciplines, with few reports of research from the library field. Conceived as a companion to The Next Library Leadership (Libraries Unlimited, 2003), Making a Difference includes not only a discussion of effective attributes, but of issues central to the development of leadership qualities, strategies, and dispositions. Essential reading for anyone interested in advancing the quality of leadership within LIS, particularly academic librarians in or aspiring to positions of managerial leadership.

Download or read book Leadership in the Library and Information Science Professions written by Mark Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safely guide your library into the new millennium! Like so much else in the information professions, leadership styles are being forced to change to meet the demands of technological innovation. Leadership in the Library and Information Science Professions is among the first books to focus on this increasingly important job qualification. It offers practical advice for developing strong, flexible, and creative leadership skills in yourself and your staff. This fascinating volume stresses the leadership needed to manage change. The essential skills taught here will help you update library services at a reasonable pace while preserving valuable low-tech alternatives. As one chapter recommends, “Every librarian at every level should have ready an answer-multiple answers-to the ubiquitous questions: Why do we still need libraries when everything is on the Web? How can you justify an expanding budget in the Internet Age?” Leadership in the Library and Information Science Professions offers fresh ideas for developing and using leadership skills, including: recruiting tips for identifying potential leaders staff training and development restructuring the organization to encourage full staff participation budget strategies for successful leaders issues of gender and ethnic diversity evaluating and assessing leadership Leadership in the Library and Information Science Professions is an essential resource for library administrators and staff. By developing your leadership skills and those of your staff, you can confidently face the hectic pace of change in the information sciences.

Download or read book Leadership in Academic Libraries Today written by Bradford Lee Eden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The LITA Leadership Guide written by Carl Antonucci and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Becoming a Library Leader Seven Stages of Leadership Development for Academic Librarians written by Shin Freedman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three parts--Library Organizations and Academic Culture, The Seven Stages of Leadership Development, and Cultural Intelligence and Global Leadership--Becoming a Library Leader offers a wealth of resources to help you progress through the seven stages of leadership development:* Understanding Yourself and Your Leadership Potential* Emotional Intelligence and Leadership* Vision and Strategy* Leading with Intention* What Leaders Really Do: Communicate and Change* Correcting through Reflecting* Mind-Set, Grit, and Resilience.

Download or read book A Starter s Guide for Academic Library Leaders written by Amanda Clay Powers and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors sat down with library leaders they most admire for a series of conversations about the aspects of the job that they find the most fascinating (and challenging). These frank discussions will nourish you with nuts-and-bolts wisdom on a diverse range of academic library management issues.

Download or read book A Leadership Primer for New Librarians written by Suzanne Byke and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides strategies and practical tips for leadership development in the field of librarianship. With the increase of both new graduates entering the field and upcoming retirements, there is a foreseeable gap in library leadership. Many early-career librarians will move into roles they are not ready for and others will find themselves having to lead without being in traditional leadership roles. This book offers suggestions for librarians facing these challenging new circumstances. The book shows how to create leadership opportunities when none appear to be present, how to take charge of your own professional development, and how to become an effective follower as well as an effective leader. The book helps the reader to recognize and take advantage of the leadership opportunities set before them. - Defines effective leadership and followership for early-career librarians - Includes stories of common experiences turned into leadership development opportunities - Identifies and addresses the need for leadership development in early-career information professionals

Download or read book Millennial Leadership in Libraries written by Ashley Krenelka Chase and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is not only important for Millennial librarians to have a base of literature from which they can draw information, guidance, or inspiration, it is also important for librarians from other generations to understand what Millennial librarians have to offer and how their entree into library leadership will affect the profession. This book, with chapters written by librarians from every generation and from libraries of all kinds, seeks to fill that void. Section I (Why Lead? The Need for Millennial Leadership in Libraries) brings together chapters that focus on the need for a new generation of leaders in libraries. The chapters in Section II (Workplace Relationships: Bridging the Gap between Generations) touch on library relationships across generations: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Section III (Millennial Leadership Skills, Styles, Strategies, and Stories) includes chapters that detail how Millennial leaders work in libraries, from outreach and marketing to blogging and collaborating. Section IV (Get them in the Door: Bringing Millennial Leadership into the Library (or Not)), while short, is an essential read for any current library leaders or administrators seeking to bring Millennial leaders into the library, or to cultivate the Millennial leadership that's already found in the library. Finally, Section V (Plotting, Planning, Persevering: Making the Most of a Millennial Leader's Career) includes chapters on career planning for Millennial librarians"--Provided by the publisher.

Download or read book Leading from the Middle and Other Contrarian Essays on Library Leadership written by John Lubans Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation reveals how followers help an organization get better and how effective followers—leading from the middle—are essential to the best kind of leadership. In "Leading from the Middle," and Other Contrarian Essays on Library Leadership, John Lubans, Jr., argues for democratic library organizations with shared leadership and decision making by leaders and followers. His book distills 15 years worth of leadership essays to advance a theory of a collaborative and empowering leadership, touching on such subjects as teamwork, empowerment, "followership," challenges, values, coaching, self-management, collaboration, communication, and techniques and tools. Lubans's 36 essays draw new and insightful perspectives on leadership from disparate realms: travel, sports, music, retail businesses, and airlines. All of the essays have been edited and revised for this book and many have been extensively updated with new material and epilogues. The essays flow from the author's experience as a manager/leader, his teaching of the topic, and his research into and experimentation with organizational leadership. Insights and suggestions are tempered by a candid reflection on successes achieved and mistakes made.

Download or read book Filling the Library Leadership Void written by Kimberley L. Bugg-Allen and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive look at leadership development offers practical, ready-to-apply tools that practitioners can use at the organizational and individual levels to develop leadership potential among individuals already working within the library. * Offers a comprehensive look at library leadership and best practices for addressing current and impending leadership gaps with strategies for the individual, organizational, and association levels] * Acts as a how-to-guide for individuals interested in developing a leadership program within their library * Provides practical strategies on how to implement a localized leadership program

Download or read book Mastering Library Leadership written by Hesham Mohamed Elsherif and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries have always been more than just buildings filled with books; they are dynamic centers of learning, community engagement, and cultural preservation. As public library directors, you are entrusted with the responsibility of guiding these institutions through an ever-evolving landscape, ensuring that they remain vital and accessible to all members of the community. The role of a library director is complex, requiring a delicate balance of leadership, management, and vision. This handbook, Mastering Library Leadership: A Handbook for Public Library Directors, is designed to be your companion on this journey, offering practical advice, strategic insights, and the tools necessary to excel in this pivotal role. Over the years, the challenges faced by public libraries have grown more intricate. The digital revolution, shifting demographic trends, and evolving community needs have all added new layers to the responsibilities of library directors. Yet, these challenges also present unprecedented opportunities for innovation and growth. This handbook is crafted with the understanding that today's library directors must be both stewards of tradition and champions of change. Whether you are a new director stepping into this role for the first time, or a seasoned leader looking to refine your skills, this guide aims to equip you with the knowledge and confidence needed to lead your library effectively. The chapters within this book cover a broad spectrum of topics, from strategic planning and financial management to community engagement and facility oversight. Each chapter is designed to be a standalone resource, allowing you to dive into the topics most relevant to your needs. However, taken together, they form a comprehensive roadmap for successful library leadership. As you read through this handbook, you will find that the principles of leadership we discuss are not just theoretical; they are grounded in the real-world experiences of library directors from across the country. The strategies and best practices shared here have been tested and proven in a variety of library settings, ensuring that they are applicable to libraries of all sizes and contexts. Our hope is that Mastering Library Leadership will serve as a valuable resource throughout your career, providing you with the insights and tools needed to navigate the complexities of your role with confidence. As you work to create a library that is responsive, innovative, and inclusive, we encourage you to view this handbook not just as a guide, but as a source of inspiration and support.

Download or read book Mid Career Library and Information Professionals written by Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities. Literature on leadership is expanding in the field of library and information sciences, and more and more seminars and workshops are being offered for new and seasoned leaders. This book asks the questions: 'What about us?' and, 'Where is the leadership advice and training for those who are no longer new librarians, but are also not yet seasoned leaders?' The title illustrates how to work the middle, from being in the sophomore slump progressing to the next leaders in the field, to look for perspectives from others who are in the middle of their career, and how they have developed into leaders, ways to develop one's own style of leadership and grow one's career and future as a librarian and information professional.

Download or read book The Many Faces of School Library Leadership written by Sharon Coatney and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School librarians need to provide leadership in technology, literacy, curriculum, advocacy, vision, intellectual freedom, collaborative instruction, and more. Each of these areas is equally important in ensuring a school library program that will enhance and encourage student achievement. More than ever, it is vital that librarians demonstrate leadership skills that will reinforce their own value and that of their institutions. The Many Faces of School Library Leadership offers insights and practical suggestions for such leadership through ten essays contributed by outstanding leaders in the field of school librarianship. --