Library Leadership & Management (Texas Digital Library - TDL E-Journals)
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Thriving in the New Normal: Strategies for Managing the Scarcity Mindset
No full textThe scarcity brought about by the economic downturn has significantly and negatively impacted Libraries' abilities to adapt to change. A key component of this is our staff’s ability to cope with increased demands and subsequent stress while still finding their work meaningful on a professional level. This article will make the distinction between resource scarcity - an economic issue - and the mindset that resource scarcity creates. It will conclude with strategies for helping staff and library leaders to manage this scarcity mindset, lowering workplace stress while improving overall organizational health
Leadership Writ Large, Beyond the Title
No full textThis column explores how leadership is often placed in context of a titled managerial or administrative role in libraries and suggests there are broader contexts of recognizing and developing leadership that should be explored
Visual Management for Libraries
No full textAlign institutional mission, goals, and performance through visual stimuli
Results for Résumés: Managing Undergraduate Library Interns
No full textThe academic library can play a crucial role in experiential learning for undergraduate students. In 2011, librarians at the University of Dayton built on the idea of student workers and partnered with the University Honors Program to offer customized experiential learning through paid internships. Librarians work one-on-one with students from a variety of disciplines. With experiences tailored to student interests, the library setting becomes a real world laboratory for skills training within the undergraduates’ disciplines or career interests. This article will describe the variety of experiences offered, resources needed, and ways of measuring and assessing for an effective internship program. The authors will articulate how library internships can offer necessary skills for careers outside the library world
The Power Deep in the Org Chart: Leading from the Middle
No full textThis "New and Noteworthy" review column focuses on recent publications involving the recognition and development of leadership skills at all levels of the library organization, not only those positions at the top of the organizational chart
New and Noteworthy: Coming to Terms with Librarian Stereotypes and Self-Image
No full textThis issue's "New and Noteworthy" column reviews recent titles dealing with the perennial discussion regarding traditional and emerging librarian stereotypes and their effect on librarians' work with patrons
Innovation Decisions: Using the Gartner Hype Cycle
No full textThe 21st century library has already faced an abundance of innovations, and it is not going to end. How is your library going to make decisions about adoption of up and coming innovations? Should you adopt them, and if so, when? Using the Gartner Hype Cycle can help you make informed decisions while managing your organization's tolerance for risk
