Interim leadership in libraries : building relationships, making decisions, and moving on

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"It's common for libraries to use visiting, interim, temporary, and acting roles to solve a variety of personnel vacancies. And with the current, widespread retirements and turnover at the most senior levels of library leadership, more and more libraries are being led by interim leaders. Interim Leadership in Libraries: Building Relationships, Making Decisions, and Moving On draws on evidence-based research, professional expertise, and personal e...

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Interim executives

Leadership

Libraries

Library administration

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ISBN:

9780838939154

Description:

xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

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
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3231459

Other Authors:

Knievel, Jennifer E., editor
Reynolds, Leslie J., editor

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