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  • Leveraging the Listening Tour as a Strategy to Help Library Leaders Acclimate to a New Organization

    Leaders stepping into new roles within a library must engage team members and learn about their new role through dialogue and interaction. Listening tours (LT) have been highlighted in business and popular literature; however such approaches have received...

  • Motivating and Retaining Student Assistants

    This paper offers specific recommendations for effectively motivating and retaining student employees at an academic library that practitioners may consider as they develop and implement programs for hiring, training, and retaining student assistants...

  • Supporting Mid-career Academic Librarians

    As mid-career librarians and supervisors we were motivated to learn how others navigate this lengthy period of their work life, which can span 20 or more years. We queried 15 mid-career academic instruction librarians via a survey and interview to...

  • Always Create a Plan

    Librarians and library leadership can benefit from the use of project management tools and processes to manage everyday projects so that it is easier to identify and complete projects. If it is clear that a task is actually a project, then library leadership...
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Our community brings together librarians, library workers, and design professionals to analyze, discuss, and share information related to academic, public, and school library buildings, equipment, and furnishings.  We share ideas and knowledge to help members stay engaged on changing trends in organizational structures, services, staff operations, and facilities. We also identify and promote adoption of best practices for inclusive practices and design.

Topics addressed include, but are not limited to:

  • Library site selection;
  • Building planning and architecture;
  • Library furniture and equipment;
  • Interior design;
  • Maintenance and security of buildings and property;
  • Disaster recovery.