A Starter's Guide for Academic Library Leaders: Advice in Conversation

摘要

A Starter's Guide for Academic Library Leaders by Amanda Clay Powers, Martin Garnar and Dustin Fife explores the leadership and management of libraries through interview-style chapters with fourteen library directors. The chapters cover a range of topics including how to shift to a director role within a library, team building, leadership and change management, leadership values, working at the institutional level, recruitment, diversity and inclusion, difficult decisions and conversations, culture building, building operations, fundraising and development, budgeting, renovations and crisis management. Powers, Garnar and Fife are themselves library directors and weave in their own observations and lessons learned into the chapters using an informal yet clear and concise interview format. Through personal and professional stories, this book shares lessons learned, paths for exploration and story-based case studies centered on a specific theme (e.g. crisis management, building, renovations and facilities, institutional advocacy, creating a culture of change).