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Library Leadership and Management

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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 provides librarians and library staff from any positional level or library type who desire to impact the broader profession a space to connect around the fundamental proficiencies and knowledge necessary to lead a successful organization. We explore and develop members' skills to create an inspiring vision, motivate people, and manage complex projects. We also help connect larger theoretical constructs to real, practical experiences. Join a network of colleagues who understand and want to help each other succeed...because when we succeed, libraries succeed, and when libraries succeed, everyone benefits.