Library Management Tips that Work

by Carol Smallwood

Overview

There’s no shortage of library management books out there—but how many of them actually tackle the little details of day-to-day management, the hard-to-categorize things that slip through the cracks of a larger handbook? Library Management Tips that Work does exactly that, addressing dozens of such issues facing library managers, including

How to create a job manual, and keep staff accountable
Keeping your library board in the loop
Using numbers to make your case
Dealing with unreturned library materials
Methods for managing multiple libraries with one FTE librarian
Retaining services despite budget cuts and staff shortages
Public relations on a shoestring

Written by contributors from across the field, this eclectic guide offers best practices suitable for managers in all types of libraries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838992876
Publisher:	ALA Editions
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Carol Smallwood received her MLS from Western Michigan University and her MA in history from Eastern Michigan University. Writing and Publishing: The Librarian’s Handbook and Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook are 2010 ALA anthologies she has edited. Lily’s Odyssey and Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages are new releases outside librarianship. Her magazine credits include The Writer’s Chronicle, English Journal, and Michigan Feminist Studies; her library experience covers work in school, public, academic, and special libraries as well as being an administrator and consultant. This is her twenty-fourth published book.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface

Part I The Manager Role
1. Beating the Clock: Adaptive Time Management in a Fluid Environment
Geoffrey P. Timms
2. Creating Manuals for Job Duties
Holly Flynn
3. How to Manage Serving Students of Generational Poverty
Kris Baughman and Rebecca Marcum Parker
4. How to Protect Your Library from Employment Discrimination Claims
Michael A. Germano
5. Managing Emergencies: What to Do When Basic or Big Disasters Strike
Sian Brannon and Kimberly Wells
6. Creating a Staff Accountability System
Terry Ann Lawler
7. Planning Ahead: Time Management in Defining Goals
Geoffrey P. Timms
8. Transforming an Off-Campus Library from Empty Space to Award Winner in One Year
Seamus Scanlon
9. When You’re Not (Exactly) the Boss: How to Manage Effectively in a “Coordinator” Role
Kim Becnel
10. Communication and Staff Awareness in the Branch Library
Jason Kuhl

Part II Running a Library
11. ASSURE-ing Your Collection
Roxanne Myers Spencer and Barbara Fiehn
12. Billy Club: A Model for Dealing with Unreturned Library Materials
Suzann Holland
13. Collaboration for Library Collection Acquisition
Lorette S. J. Weldon
14. Community Partnerships: The Key to Providing Programs in a Recession
Ashanti White
15. CVL Leads: Mentorship and Leadership
Robin Shader
16. How to Manage a Student-Centric Library Service for Nontraditional Users
Seamus Scanlon
17. Managing Overnight
Ken Johnson and Susan Jennings
18. Managing More Than One School Library with One FTE Librarian
Kris Baughman and Rebecca Marcum Parker
19. Management Tips for Merging Multiple Service Points
Colleen S. Harris
20. SuperStarz: An Experience in Grant Project Management
Vera Gubnitskaia
21. Utilizing Retired Individuals as Volunteers
Ashanti White
22. Weeding as Affective Response, or “I Just Can’t Throw This Out!”
Barbara Fiehn and Roxanne Myers Spencer

Part III Information Technology
23. Facebook for Student Assistants
Susan Jennings and Ken Johnson
24. Improving Communication with Blogs
Alice B. Ruleman
25. Improving Productivity with Google Apps
Suzann Holland
26. Partnering with Information Technology at the Reference Desk: A Model for Success
Jeffrey A. Franks
27. Putting Missing Pieces from the Collection Together with SharePoint
Lorette S. J. Weldon
28. Real-Life Management Using Virtual Tools
Vera Gubnitskaia
29. Session Control Software for Community Users in an Academic Library
Jeffrey A. Franks
30. To Friend or Not to Friend: The Facebook Question
Kim Becnel
31. Why a Wiki? How Wikis Help Get Work Done
Alice B. Ruleman

Part IV Staff
32. Millennials, Gen-X, Gen-Y, and Boomers, Oh My! Managing Multiple Generations in the Library
Colleen S. Harris
33. Hiring and Training Graduate Assistants for the Academic Library
Erin O’Toole
34. Managing for Emergencies: What to Do before, during, and after Disaster
Sian Brannon and Kimberly Wells
35. Managing Librarians and Staff with Young Children
Holly Flynn
36. Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library
Erin O’Toole
37. New Employee Orientation
Bradley Tolppanen and Janice Derr
38. Discrimination in Employment: An Overview for Library Managers
Michael A. Germano
39. Obtaining Compliance from Underperforming Employees: Talking It Through
Terry Ann Lawler
40. Planning for Change: Ensuring Staff Commitment
Jason Kuhl
41. Shadow and Learn: Knowing Your Staff
Robin Shader
42. Staff Shortages
Bradley Tolppanen and Janice Derr

Part V Public Relations
43. No Surprises: Keeping Your Board in the Loop
Lynn Hawkins
44. Board Meetings That Work
James B. Casey
45. Library Partners: Cooperating with Other Nonprofits
John Helling
46. Portraits in a Small Town: Balancing Access and Privacy with a Local History Photography Collection
John Helling
47. Using Numbers to Make Your Case
James B. Casey
48. Staying in the Game: Public Relations on a Shoestring
Lynn Hawkins

Contributors
Index