By Petra D??ren
In a time whilst libraries need to face consistent swap, this booklet offers examples and advises on the way to lead whilst switch is required (for instance, while caliber administration is applied or whilst libraries need to merge or to relocate). attractive with how consistent switch impacts management in libraries and the way leaders in libraries act in occasions of switch, this e-book is geared toward practitioners and scholars of Library and knowledge technology (LIS) alike, and is predicated on either idea and professional interviews from leaders in educational and public libraries which are within the midst, or are actually popping out of a strategy of change.
- Provides functional recommendations for actual swap occasions and difficulties in libraries
- Includes specialist interviews
- Written by means of a professor with 9 years adventure as a member the administration crew for the German nationwide Library of technological know-how and Technology
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While he didn’t necessarily come across as authoritarian with his own team members, with the team members of the other departments such as ‘Content Management’ and ‘Information Systems’ it was a different story. At least to some degree he was able to and did act in a more participative manner with his own team members than with other members of staff. For example, one way to be more participative involved building a collective concept of an enemy, thus his team members could concentrate their energies on treating the other departments as their enemies instead of seeing him as an authoritarian leader who wanted to modify everything on his own.
Shortly after the announcement of her appointment as leader of the newly merged district library she carried out one-on-one interviews with every new member of her team. In the end those team members received more attention than the staff from her old district library. While she already knew the latter and their ideas, she had to find out what the new team members thought of and hoped for their positions in the new library. That most of these wishes could be fulfilled was good for the change process and the new team that needed to be built.
Although he has now left this library his replacement had only to carry out a few refinements. He is especially proud of his team members who worked with him to reach the goals of the change project in the time allowed of six months. ’, as well as look for face-to-face dialogue with their team members. ‘Being present’ includes working with the team members, even if this means doing tasks that are unusual for leaders. He also recommends showing courage and trying out new things, leaving the ‘librarian’s perfectionism’ behind and sometimes carrying out alterations without discussing and 42 Implementation of a library RFID management system measuring every single possibility in detail.