Now You're A Manager: Quick And Practical Strategies For

Aimed at mid-level managers in academic libraries, this guide outlines strategies for managing and building departments and teams; managing diverse departments of different types of staff and faculty, generations, and personality types; creating a respectful workplace and dealing with problem employees; finding and creating professional development and training; mentoring and coaching; conducting meetings; managing between library administration and one's employees; managing library and university politics and bureaucracy; managing change; and managing as a team. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

M. Leslie Madden is the Instruction Coordinator for the University Library at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she has been employed since December 2005. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Humanities Librarian at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia for eight years. She has an M.A. in English literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Laura Carscaddon is Head, Research & Engagement at Georgia State University Library where she has been employed since 2010. Laura holds an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Tennessee and participated in the 2015 ALA Leadership Institute. Denita Hampton is Manager, User Services and Technology Support at Georgia State University Library. She is responsible for the Library Services Desk which includes circulation and media services; the Technology Support Desk which provides equipment checkout and basic software support; and CURVE (Collaborative University Research & Visualization Environment) which provides the latest interactive digital technology to students. Denita has presented at regional and national conferences and is co-organizer of the Access Services Conference. Brenna Helmstutler is Team Leader for Health, Science, Education, and Policy and is the subject librarian for Nursing at Georgia State University Library where she has been employed since 2004. She currently serves on the Membership Committee of Library Leadership and Management (ALA) and previously served as convener of the Mid-Level Managers Discussion Group (ACRL). She holds an M.S. in Counseling from Radford University and an M.L.I.S. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.