Academic law library director perspectives
Subtitle: case studies and insights
By: edited by Michelle M. Wu
Series: AALL publications series -- no. 77; AALL publications series -- no. 77.
Publisher: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Buffalo, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780837740133
Subjects: Library administration; Administration; Library administrators; Law libraries; Geschäftsführer; Juristische Bibliothek; Academic library directors; Bibliotheksverwaltung; Academic libraries; Library directors
Description: "The book serves as a supplemental guide to educating new law library directors. Practical in nature, it focuses on the pieces of directors' jobs that are not explicit in any written description of the job. Most chapters focus on one of the director's roles (e.g., mentor, mediator, fundraiser, opportunity seeker, politician, or committee member). Each starts with a case study to provide a realistic context in which to examine the subject, followed by analysis and commentary by successful, sitting directors. When possible, more than one commenter on a fact pattern was provided, to allow for a diversity of opinions and to highlight idea-generation over any specific solution. Other chapters cover basic issues such privacy, finances, data, and when (and how) to say no"--Publisher [verso].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword.; title: How to use this book  -- Michelle M. Wu. pt. 1. General advice.; title: Stalking a law library directorship  -- Charles Ten Brink & Michelle Wu; title: Negotiating after receiving the directorship offer  -- James E. Duggan; title: Financial basics  -- Elizabeth Edinger; title: Financial basics  -- Spencer L. Simons; title: Financial basics  -- Suzanne Wones; title: Libraries and data  -- Darin K. Fox; title: The three percent : common issues in nonautonomous law school libraries  -- Elizabeth G. Adelman; title: When (and how) to say "no"  -- Michelle M. Wu. pt. 2. Unwritten roles.; title: Library director as negotiator/horse trader : analysis  -- Billie Jo Kaufman; title: Library director as negotiator/horse trader : analysis  -- James S. Heller; title: Library director as mentor  -- Penny A. Hazelton; title: Library director as counselor and mediator : analysis  -- Karl T. Gruben; title: Library director as counselor and mediator : analysis  -- Kristy L. Gilliland; title: Library director as fundraiser : analysis  -- Faye E. Jones; title: Library director as social butterfly (or "what does collegiality mean in the faculty standards?") : analysis  -- Mary Ann Hyatt; title: Library director as social butterfly (or "what does collegiality mean in the faculty standards?") : analysis  -- Duncan Alford; title: Library director as opportunity identifier : analysis  -- Pauline M. Aranas; title: Library director as opportunity identifier : analysis  -- Ronald E. Wheeler, Jr.; title: Library director as manager of union employees : Case study 1 : librarians : analysis  -- Taylor Fitchett; title: Library director as manager of union employees : Case study 1 : librarians : analysis  -- Victoria J. Szymczak; title: Library director as manager of union employees : Case study 2 : staff : analysis  -- Kristina L. Niedringhaus; title: Librarian director as manager of union employees : Case study 2 : staff : analysis  -- Courtney L. Selby; title: Library director as change agent : analysis   -- Gordon Russell; title: Library director as change agent : analysis  -- Femi Cadmus; title: Library director as educator : analysis  -- Christopher A. Knott; title: Library director as educator : analysis  -- Sally H. Wise; title: Library director as politician : analysis  -- Filippa Marullo Anzalone. pt. 3. Service contributions.; title: Library director as university committee chair : analysis  -- Barbara A. Bintliff; title: Library director as consultant : analysis  -- Joan S. Howland; title: Two sides of the coin : the roles of the law library director in ABA sabbatical visits  -- Scott B. Pagel. pt. 4. Developing issues.; title: Law librarians' roles in modern law libraries  -- Richard A. Leiter; title: Privacy and competing library goals : how can library directors lead when values collide? -- Anne Klinefelter.