Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians

by Bridgit McCafferty
Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians

by Bridgit McCafferty

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Overview

Most professional librarians, even recent graduates, manage something, whether it be a project, service, department, or a whole library. This book explains the different managerial roles at libraries, looking at the levels of managers, what they do, and how they do it. The goal is to explore the unique challenges faced by different types of library managers, in order to prepare early and mid-career librarians to step into new roles, and to think about how they might progress toward upper-management in a library.

The approach is practice-driven, with a particular focus on the soft skills that are needed to be successful as a manager.

Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians features three parts:

  • project management,
  • middle management, and
  • upper management.

These sections cover the different kinds of challenges that face people at each level of their career, exploring how these challenges can help prepare librarians for promotion to the next level. The purpose of these sections is to show how management skills develop over the course of one’s career, and to explore how leaders changes from context to context. Though each section focuses on a particular level of authority, the lessons can be useful for and applied to all of the levels discussed. For example, the same librarian might fill different roles in different contexts. A dean might serve as a library’s executive, but also manage a university-wide project or a middle manager might step into the role of dean temporarily, or might wonder what the next level of management would require.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538144626
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 05/26/2021
Series: Practical Guides for Librarians , #74
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 178
File size: 606 KB

About the Author

Bridgit McCafferty is the dean of the university library at Texas A&M University-Central Texas, and has led the library for seven years. Prior to this, she was in charge of reference and instruction services for the library. She coauthored British Postmodernism: Strategies and Sources, and has written several book chapters about library assessment and library support for nontraditional students.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Preface

Section I Project Management

Chapter 1 The Role of the Project Manager

Chapter 2 Leadership Styles

Chapter 3 Group Development and Conflict

Chapter 4 Project Management Frameworks

Chapter 5 Assessment Basics

Chapter 6 Developing Professionally through Project Management

Section II Middle Management

Chapter 7 The Role of a Middle Manager

Chapter 8 Mentoring and Managing Employees

Chapter 9 Coordinating Resources

Chapter 10 Strategic Planning and Assessment

Chapter 11 Promoting and Transforming Organizational Culture

Chapter 12 Developing Professionally through Middle Management

Section III Upper Management

Chapter 13 The Role of a Director

Chapter 14 Managing Managers and Managing Up

Chapter 15 Crisis Leadership

Chapter 16 Budgeting

Chapter 17 Getting Support

Chapter 18 Peer Review, Accreditation, and Assessment

Chapter 19 Developing Professionally through Upper Management

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