Academic library directors: What do they do?

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 538-562

  Hernon, Peter ^a   Powell, Ronald R ^b   Young, Arthur P ^c  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 26044482054     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.65.6.538     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. See Peter Hernon, Ronald R. Powell, and Arthur P. Young, The Next Library Leadership: Attributes of Academic and Public Library Directors (Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2003);
2. - "University Library Directors in the Association of Research Libraries: The Next Generation: Part One," College & Research Libraries 62 (Mar. 2001): 116-45;
3. -, "University Library Directors in the Association of Research Libraries: The Next Generation: Part Two," College & Research Libraries 63 (Jan. 2002): 73-90
4. In addition to the sources cited in note 1, see Eileen McElrath, "Challenges That Academic Library Directors Are Experiencing as Perceived by Them and Their Supervisors," College & Research Libraries 63 (July 2002): 304-21;
5. Karin Wittenborg, Chris Ferguson, and Michael A. Keller, Reflecting on Leadership (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003);
6. Catherine J. Matthews, "Becoming a Chief Librarian: An Analysis of Transition Stages in Academic Library Leadership," Library Trends 50 (spring 2002): 578-602. Most of these writings contain an extensive literature review.
7. Chih-Feng P. Lin, Changes in Stated Requirements of Director Positions of Academic Libraries in the U.S.: A Content Analysis of Qualifications and Job Expectations as Advertised in Selected Professional Periodicals (Boston: Simmons College, 2000; unpublished);
8. -, "Changes in Stated Job Requirements of Director Positions of Academic Libraries in the U.S.," Journal of Information, Communication and Library Science 8 (fall 2001): 9-25.
9. Peter H. McCracken, "The Presence of the Doctorate among Small College Library Directors," College & Research Libraries 61 (Sept. 2000): 400-408. According to the Carnegie classification (see note 14), a small college is a Baccalaureate I institution.
10. Stanley J. Wilder, Demographic Change in Academic Librarianship (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2003).
11. Ole Pors-Niels and Carl Gustav Johannsen, "Job Satisfaction and Motivational Strategies among Library Directors," New Library World 103 (2002): 199-208;
12. -, "Library Managers and Management 2001: A New Danish Survey," New Review of Information and Library Research 7 (2001): 186-200.
13. Pors-Niels has developed a 270-variable survey instrument that examines both management and leadership. He intends to collapse it into a 100-question form.
14. Colin Robson, Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchers (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1993), 254.
15. Don H. Zimmerman and D. Lawrence Wieder, "The Diary: Diary-Interview Method," Urban Life 5 (Jan. 1977): 481.
16. See, e.g., Katrina Byström and Kalervo Järvelin, "Task Complexity Affects Information Seeking and Use," Information Processing & Management 31 (1995): 191-213.
17. Henry Mintzberg, The Nature of Managerial Work (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980), 22.
18. W. Thomas Porter Jr., "Time and Self-Management," Journal of Accountancy 145 (June 1978): 58-64.
19. Mintzberg, The Nature of Managerial Work, 21. Please note that figure 1 reprints the diary used in one study.
20. Robert L. Adcock, "Time, One More Time," California Management Review 14 (winter 1971): 29.
21. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (Menlo Park, Calif.: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2001).
22. For the five-point scale, see the section on diary instructions.
23. This director adjusts his workday so that he can devote time to his young children. He engages in e-mail communication before they awake and go to school. He also volunteers in one of their classes and attends parent-teacher conferences.
24. See note 1.
25. See Hernon, Powell, and Young, "University Library Directors in the Association of Research Libraries: The Next Generation: Part Two."
26. Michael A. Keller, "Scattered Leaves: Reflecting on Leadership," in Wittenborg, Ferguson, and Keller, Reflecting on Leadership, 33-51.
27. Mintzberg, "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact," Harvard Business Review 68 (Mar-Apr. 1990): 163.
28. Ibid., 174.
29. See note 15.
30. Daniel Goleman, "What Makes a Leader?" Harvard Business Review 82 (Jan. 2004): 82. (The other papers in this issue provide complementary perspectives on emotional intelligence.)
31. Ibid., 88.
32. Rush Miller, comments, in Hernon, Powell, and Young, The Next Library Leadership, 47.
33. The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition, A Report to the OCLC Membership, ed. Alane Wilson (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2004).