Scarecrow Press
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978-0-8108-8381-9 • Hardback • May 2012 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
978-0-8108-8382-6 • eBook • May 2012 • $118.50 • (£92.00)
Bradford Lee Eden is Dean of Library Services at Valparaiso University. He is editor of the journals OCLC Systems & Services: Digital Library Perspectives International and The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, and he is on the editorial boards of Library Hi Tech and The Journal of Film Music. Eden is the editor of Content Management Systems for Libraries: Case Studies (Scarecrow, 2008).
Introduction
Bradford Lee Eden
1. What is an Associate University Librarian
Martha Hruska
Managing change
2. The first four years: what I walked into and where I am now
Jane Schillie
3. Everything flows negotiating change in the 21st century library
Mildred L. Jackson
Funding the library enterprise/ Managing Resources
4. Climb on down from that tree and help me turn loose of this here wildcat: the art of letting go
Donald Barclay
5. Networking with benefits: how to cultivate donor relations and get the most out of fundraising
Shakeela Begum
6. Dealing with budget reductions
Marianne Afifi, Elizabeth Housewright, and Mark Stover
7. Sometimes the news is good
Sandra Barstow
8. AUL for Research: libraries and the business of doing research
D. Scott Brandt
Managing your career
9. Lead like you really mean it: making your AUL leadership count
Susan Parker
10. Moving up: positioning for director roles in academic libraries
Julie Garrison, Marianne Ryan, and Kathleen DeLong
11. Making the transition from AUL to line librarian
Sandra Barstow
AULs and Leadership
12. Next generation AULs: regenerating academic library leadership
Susan Parker
13. AULs and ethics in the workplace
Susan Parker
Contributors
Geared for current and future associate university librarians and deans, the work fills a gap in the literature for handbooks and sourcebooks for this specific position. Beginning with an introductory section that introduces the book as a whole and defines the Associate University Librarian, the work next presents two case studies on managing change as an associate university librarian, followed by five chapters on funding the library enterprise and managing resources. The fourth section presents three chapters on managing your career and development, while the fifth provides two chapters for the associate university librarian taking on an interim leadership role. This work is of use for practicing librarians in academic environments who are looking to move up to a higher position, and for those already working as associate university librarians.
— American Reference Books Annual
Fortunately, much of the advice provided in this collection’s 17 papers is equally useful for librarians in management positions in any library. The papers are written by a well-credentialed and multi-skilled group of senior university librarians, and each concludes with an extensive list of further reading options for each topic.
In addition to the informative collection of papers in the handbook, Eden also directs his readers to the Taiga Forum (www.taiga-forum.org), which maintains a discussion board facilitating the exchange of views on issues relevant to managing university libraries.
The Associate University Librarian Handbook is well set out – with a clear and informative contents page and a good index – easy to read and to refer to as needed. It provides invaluable career advice for those in the position of associate university librarian and those aspiring to attain the position, as well as senior librarians and library managers in any library sphere looking to move up the career ladder
— Australian Library Journal