{"title":"Veterans as Library Employees: Insights and Ideas for Library Administrators","authors":"Sarah LeMire","doi":"10.1080/01930826.2023.2240196","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"AbstractMilitary veterans are employed in a variety of roles in libraries, from library security to library administration. This article explores how a military background impacts a library employee’s experience working in libraries, including the barriers that veterans encounter as well as the strengths that veterans bring to the library community. This article provides concrete, actionable suggestions that library administrators can implement in order to help their libraries become more veteran friendly, not only for patrons, but also for employees.Keywords: Veteransmilitarymanagement and library employees Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":46427,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Library Administration","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2023.2240196","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
AbstractMilitary veterans are employed in a variety of roles in libraries, from library security to library administration. This article explores how a military background impacts a library employee’s experience working in libraries, including the barriers that veterans encounter as well as the strengths that veterans bring to the library community. This article provides concrete, actionable suggestions that library administrators can implement in order to help their libraries become more veteran friendly, not only for patrons, but also for employees.Keywords: Veteransmilitarymanagement and library employees Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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The Journal of Library Administration is the primary source of information on all aspects of the effective management of libraries. Stressing the practical, this valuable journal provides information that administrators need to efficiently and effectively manage their libraries. The journal seeks out the most modern advances being made in professional management and applies them to the library setting.