{"title":"Leading in the Present: Mindfulness for Library Leadership","authors":"Jason M. Martin","doi":"10.5860/llm.v33i1.7304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7304","url":null,"abstract":"Mindfulness is the deliberate, non-judgmental awareness of what one is experiencing in the present moment. Mindfulness helps library leaders be more present, improve self-awareness and management, and provide mental replenishment. Mindful library leaders are better at dealing with stress and responding to the numerous demands of their job. Our brains are always working, scanning the environment for dangers, which can put us in a constant state of stress. Mindfulness allows us to break a thought pattern and return to the present moment, thereby helping to alleviate stress. Mindfulness is cultivated through various practices including deep breathing, mindful moments, and meditation.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130612886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting Started with Organizational Design at Your Library","authors":"D. Burns, Sian Brannon","doi":"10.5860/llm.v33i1.7311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7311","url":null,"abstract":"Is your library a business? Or is this even the correct question to ask? Maybe a better question is: What can libraries learn from the business world to become more successful? One such mechanism is the concept of organizational design. This means taking a hard look at an organization’s structure, culture, procedures, and systems, then assessing how things need to change (Office of Personnel Management, 2018). Thinking about your organization’s design is a foundation for strategic planning. The following section poses a conceptual framework, followed by contemplative questions to encourage your library to start or continue conversations related to organizational design in order to facilitate planning and change.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123259181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral Leadership: Shared Accountability for Staff Growth & Development","authors":"Amy M. Kautzman","doi":"10.5860/llm.v33i1.7308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7308","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows evidence that technology is threatening the viability of library staff positions in a real and fast moving manner. Considering the certainty of job insecurity and loss, how does a leader own her responsibility to engage staff in serious conversations regarding their current and future reskilling and employment options.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126954516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Orientation: A Look at Scheduled Time and Unscheduled Time in a New Librarian’s First Sixty Days","authors":"Rayla E. Tokarz","doi":"10.5860/llm.v33i1.7325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7325","url":null,"abstract":"Some new librarians feel alone and are not excited about the orientation process, but library science literature is focused on this first phase of employment and its importance. This article is a self-reflection of one librarian’s allocation of scheduled time and unscheduled time in the first sixty days of employment and its possible role beyond the orientation process. The analysis of the librarian’s time within the first sixty days showed a balance between scheduled time and unscheduled time. The analysis also showed that only 5% of the first sixty days was spent in a formal orientation program. The new librarian experienced a stronger sense of employee engagement than previous positions that did not have a balanced time allocation.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115485143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Project Management in Libraries","authors":"J. Bartlett","doi":"10.5860/llm.v33i1.7343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7343","url":null,"abstract":"This issue's \"New and Noteworthy\" column focuses on several books, journal articles, and websites that will serve as an introduction to project management in library and information organization settings.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128624412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding the Ties that Bind: Coalition Building In Loosely Coupled Academic Libraries","authors":"Lyena C. Chavez","doi":"10.5860/llm.v33i1.7298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7298","url":null,"abstract":"Pressures are building for academic library leaders. Leaders face budget cuts, space re-purposing, staffing shortages, and expectations to meet evolving faculty and students’ research needs. Leaders must not only manage library operations, but also successfully guide and lead within a sea of unpredictable, evolving institutional forces and activities. Loosely coupled organizational theory provides library leaders insights and guidance as they organize and plan. Leaders must recognize, understand, and leverage the strengths of these systems. It is up to them to bring together appropriate coalitions to foster collaborations and cohesions not only among library staff members, but across disciplinary communities within academia. By finding and securing these ties that bind in loosely coupled libraries, leaders can successfully further goals and foster innovation.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124590753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Position of Strength: The Value of Evidence and Change Management in Master Plan Development","authors":"Rachel Sarjeant-Jenkins","doi":"10.5860/llm.v33i1.7316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7316","url":null,"abstract":"Libraries are experiencing significant change in how space is being used as well as increasing pressure from their funding and governance bodies to demonstrate the continued need for library physical space. There is a growing demand for library spaces that reflect different ways of accessing and using information, support learning and building community, and encourage creativity and the creation of new knowledge. To assist them in determining how to move forward, many libraries are developing master plans – multi-year high-level plans providing direction and vision but allowing flexibility to accommodate unanticipated needs – for their physical spaces and service delivery models. The challenge for libraries is to ensure that their master plans reflect the dynamic world in which they are situated and are supported by clients and other library stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"2005 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127659338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Bailey, Ruthie Brock, Sylvia George-Williams, Lynn F. Johnson, R. Holmes, Heather Scalf
{"title":"Career Progression for Librarians and Archivists Without Faculty Status: A New Model","authors":"J. Bailey, Ruthie Brock, Sylvia George-Williams, Lynn F. Johnson, R. Holmes, Heather Scalf","doi":"10.5860/llm.v32i4.7295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v32i4.7295","url":null,"abstract":"In 2013, the dean of Libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Libraries formed a task force composed of six librarians and charged them with completely overhauling the career progression policy for librarians and archivists that had been in place since 1995. The task force devised a new policy and a scoring rubric to assist the committee that makes recommendations regarding promotions in their evaluation process. This article describes the process of developing the policy and its accompanying rubric as well as their contents and recounts lessons learned during the first round of evaluations of candidates for promotion.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114971669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Political Capital on Academic Library Leadership","authors":"C. O'Bryan","doi":"10.5860/llm.v32i4.7292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v32i4.7292","url":null,"abstract":"Given the extremely rapid state of change occurring in academic libraries due to funding cuts, shifts from physical to digital collections, changes in the use of physical spaces, changing information-seeking patterns and information use by faculty and students, the ability of library directors to advance their vision for the library becomes crucial. This is not to say that library directors are without decision-making power or the ability to establish vision, set agendas, and implement plans. However, in many cases, the provost, budget director, building and grounds manager, vice presidents, and the president offer support for activities depending upon their level of interest, oversight, and buy-in. As library directors seek support for initiatives, alignment with those having political capital becomes increasingly important.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130140709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconceptualizing Liaisons: A Model for Assessing and Developing Liaison Competencies to Guide Professional Development","authors":"D. Schoonover, Kirsten Kinsley, Gloria Colvin","doi":"10.5860/llm.v32i4.7275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v32i4.7275","url":null,"abstract":"In an effort to reconceptualize its liaison program, the FSU Libraries initiated a three-phase, grassroots effort to develop a set of core values and competencies, conduct a self-assessment based upon those competencies, and create a strategic training program based upon the results. We determined that our defining values guide our practice, particularly with our hybrid model of liaisons collaborating with functional experts to engage users. The results of the self-assessment indicated that liaisons felt competent in teaching and research services, but less confident engaging faculty members in areas related to scholarly communication and digital tools. Our core competencies and best practices provide benchmarks for superior service and structure for an intentional training program.","PeriodicalId":404822,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership & Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131440972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}