Interim leadership in libraries : building relationships, making decisions, and moving on / edited by Jennifer E. Knievel and Leslie J. Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knievel, Jennifer E., editor.

Reynolds, Leslie J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library administration.

Interim executives.

Leadership.

Libraries.

Academic libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Association of College & Research Libraries, [2022]

Summary:

It's common for libraries to use visiting, interim, temporary, and acting roles to solve a variety of personnel vacancies. And with widespread retirements and turnover at the most senior levels of library leadership, more and more libraries are being led by interim leaders. This book draws on evidence-based research, professional expertise, and personal experience to address the practical implications that arise from the decision to appoint interim leaders. Authors from a variety of institutions who have served in many different interim roles explore this unique type of leadership in five thorough sections. Chapters cover topics including serving as a non-librarian interim, leading through a hiring freeze, strategic planning and reorganization as interim, and developing future library leaders. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Question your assumptions about interim leadership / Jennifer E. Knievel, Leslie J. Reynolds

Section I : Building relationships for interim leaders. Interim leadership by the numbers : leadership turnover in academic libraries / Jennifer E. Knievel

The "double dean" : embracing the unexpected opportunities of a non-librarian interim dean / L. Angie Ohler, Adriana Gonzalez, Lynda Coon

Building trust : the reluctant interim / Edward A. (Tony) Brewer

Section II : Leading with confidence. "Acting up," or just acting? / Rebecca Hutchins

When the real dean gets here / Deirdre A. Scaggs

Overcoming interim inertia / Lisa Tyson

Finding the way forward : expectations for interim law library directors / Billie Jo Kaufman, James M. Donovan

Section III : Making long-term decisions as an interim leader. Taking the wheel in choppy waters : leading transformational change as an interim head during a crisis / Suzanne Wones, Claire DeMarco

Tackling a reorganization as an interim administrator / Vickery Kaye Lebbin

Strategic planning in times of transition : when interim becomes the strategy / Katy B. Mathuews, Miriam Nelson, Hanna Schmillen

Section IV : Leading through contraction : when no one can be hired. Avoiding freezer burn : before, during, and after of a hiring freeze / Karen Rupp-Serrano

Caught in red tape : changing administrations, multiple vacancies, and interim leadership in federal libraries / Kari Anderson, M. Kathleen Kern

Interim management during a hiring freeze, salary freeze, and salary reduction / Shelly McCoy

Section V : Moving on : when the dust settles. Developing prospective interim and future academic library leaders : reflections for leadership practice / Denise Stephens

How much do you really want to know? : When the interim dean onboards the new dean and offboards themselves / Leslie J. Reynolds, Holly E. Jeffcoat

What now? : Reflections on when you are no longer the interim leader / Jennifer E. Knievel, Leslie J. Reynolds

Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Print version: Interim leadership in libraries:

ISBN:

9780838939161

0838939163

OCLC:

1314613507