Mid-Career Library and Information Professionals: A Leadership Primer (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843346095 ISBN 13: 9781843346098

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities. Literature on leadership is expanding in the field of library and information sciences, and more and more seminars and workshops are being offered for new and seasoned leaders. This book asks the questions: ‘What about us?’ and, ‘Where is the leadership advice and training for those who are no longer new librarians, but are also not yet seasoned leaders?’ The title illustrates how to work the middle, from being in the sophomore slump progressing to the next leaders in the field, to look for perspectives from others who are in the middle of their career, and how they have developed into leaders, ways to develop one’s own style of leadership and grow one’s career and future as a librarian and information professional.

• Perspectives on leadership from mid-career information professionals
• Tips and tools on how to become a leader from the middle of your career
• A how-to guide on making changes from the middle

About this title

About the Authors

Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen is the Portland Operations librarian at the Oregon Institute of Technology. She graduated with her MLIS from Louisiana State University in 2003, though she has been in libraries in various forms since her first job as a student assistant in the library at Linfield College in 1996. Dawn has written other various works including co-authoring A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today's Early Career Librarians Become Tomorrow's Library Leaders (2009).

Linda Crook is Science Librarian and Assistant Professor at Washington State University, where she is the liaison to the College of Pharmacy. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool in 2000. She has been working in libraries since 1991, including time as student assistant, paraprofessional, and librarian; in a public library, a special library, and academic libraries; as lead, supervisor, division head, and branch library head. Linda is active in the American Library Association where she participated in the 2008 Emerging Leaders program. Her other works include a contribution to A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today's Early Career Librarians Become Tomorrow's Library Leaders (2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843346095
• ISBN 13: 9781843346098
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Lowe-Wincentsen Dawn, Crook Linda