Mid-Career Library and Information Professionals. A Leadership Primer

245 Pages·2011·1.446 MB·English

by  Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen and Linda Crook (Eds.)

Mid-Career Library and Information
Professionals: A Leadership Primer
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List of fi gures and tables
Figures
7.1 Mentoring for career progression 80
Tables
6.1 Checklist for running effective meetings 69
6.A.1 Tips for leading without authority 74
7.1 Perception of mentorship 83
7.2 Infl uence of mentoring on career progression 84
17.1 Good and bad 235
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About the contributors
Melissa Aho, MA, MLIS, MS is the Evening & Circulation
Supervisor at the Bio-Medical Library, University of
Minnesota-Minneapolis. She has published articles, book
chapters, and over 50 book reviews. Melissa is currently
working on her private pilot’s license.
Erika Bennett works as the Information Literacy and
Instruction Librarian for Capella University, an online
accredited university. She has coordinated the Instruction
team for two years, including the creation of Capella’s
Information Literacy plan and the realization of its university-
wide Information Literacy curriculum outcome. She has
presented nationally and published on library program
assessment in distance education.
Linda Crook is Reference Team Leader and Health Sciences
Librarian at Washington State University. She has been
saying ‘yes’ to library employment since 1991, and received
her MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool in
2000. Linda is active in the American Library Association
and was a 2008 ALA Emerging Leader. She will be the ALA
New Members Round Table President for 2011/2012.
Aaron W. Dobbs is the Systems & Electronic Resources
Librarian and Access Services Coordinator at Shippensburg
University of Pennsylvania. As an American Library
Association (ALA) member, he is actively involved with
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association governance and encouraging new member-leaders.
Outside libraryland, Aaron and his family enjoy reading,
hiking, and travel. Aaron has been to 16 countries, 47 US
states, and almost half the counties in the United States.
Robin Ewing is the Access Services Coordinator and
Associate Professor at St Cloud State University in St Cloud,
MN. She earned her MLIS at the University of Oklahoma in
2001. Her research interests include information literacy
assessment, Web 2.0, and leadership.
Nancy G. Faget works as a federal information professional
in Washington, DC. She currently works as a program
planning specialist, managing projects and doing strategic
planning for a network of over 1,200 libraries. Her passion
is promoting federal librarianship on the Careers in Federal
Libraries Google group.
Lisa A. Forrest is a Senior Assistant Librarian for SUNY
College at Buffalo and the founding member of the school’s
Rooftop Poetry Club. She is the recipient of the 2008
Excellence in Library Service Award from the Western New
York Library Resources Council, and her scholarly writing
has appeared in a variety of publications, including American
Libraries, A Leadership Primer for New Librarians (Neal-
Schuman Publishers), Thinking Outside the Book (McFarland),
Urban Library Journal, and Writing and Publishing: The
Librarian’s Handbook (ALA Editions). Other publications
(essays and poems) include her collection To the Eaves
(BlazeVox, 2008), as well as appearances in ArtVoice, Buffalo
News, Damn the Caesars, eco-poetics, foursquare, Kadar
Koli, Scythe, and Yellow Edenwald Field.
Jacob Hill has served as a reference and instruction librarian
for the A.C. Buehler Library at Elmhurst College since 2003.
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He received his Masters of Library and Information Science
from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. His current
focus concerns plagiarism issues, mobile librarianship, and
entrusting his life to the ether (i.e. ‘cloud computing’).
Sarah Hill is the Manager of the Sights and Sounds
department at the St Joseph County Public Library in South
Bend, Indiana and is an instructor of Research Skills at
Indiana University, South Bend.
Samantha Schmehl Hines received her MS in Library and
Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign in 2003. She has worked as a cataloger for the
National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar
Rapids and as a reference librarian at Kirkwood Community
College in Iowa City. In 2004 she was hired by the Mansfi eld
Library at the University of Montana-Missoula and is
currently the Distance Education Coordinator/Social Science
Librarian/Reference Desk Manager.
Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen is the Portland Operations Librarian
at the Oregon Institute of Technology. She graduated with
her MLIS from Louisiana State University in 2003, though
she has been in libraries in various forms since her fi rst job as
a student assistant in the library at Linfi eld College in 1996.
Dawn has written other various works including co-authoring
A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for helping
today’s early career librarians become tomorrow’s library
leaders (Chandos, 2009).
Ruth Mirtz is Education Librarian and Assistant Professor at
J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi. Her
most recent work in library science include ‘From Information
to Learning: Pedagogies of Space and the Notion of the
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Commons’ in College and Undergraduate Libraries and
‘Disintermediation and Resistance: Giroux and Radical
Praxis in the Library’ in Critical Library Instruction: Theories
and Methods (Eds. Maria Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and
Alana Kumbier).
Richard Moniz, MA, MLIS, EdD was responsible for the
creation of two academic libraries for Johnson & Wales
University and has served as a Director of Library Services
for Johnson & Wales from 1997 until the present (in Florida
and North Carolina). In addition to having taught history,
government, and technology classes for Johnson & Wales,
Richard has taught for the past four years for the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Library & Information
Studies program. He has published a textbook on library
administration, written for other library publications, is
active in ALA and ACRL, and is very involved in faculty
development.
Kathryn Munson is an Assistant Professor and librarian in
the Access Services Department at Southeastern Louisiana
University’s Linus A. Sims Memorial Library in Hammond,
LA. Kathryn has served as a mentor for the American Library
Association’s New Members Round Table and she writes
and presents on Library 2.0 initiatives in access services,
emerging technologies, and leadership development in
academic libraries.
Benedict A. Oladele, PhD, is the University Librarian of
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and a member of the
Nigeria Library Association. He was a Fulbright Senior
Research Scholar at the James Coleman Africa Studies
Center in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
in the 2003/2004 academic year. He has diverse library and
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information work experience spanning over 30 years, of
which the past fourteen years have been at top-level
management positions where he has continued to mentor
younger colleagues.
Mary Jo Orzech, MLS, PhD is the Director of Library
Services in Library, Information and Technology Services at
the College at Brockport, State University of New York. She
is a mid-career transplant into the academic library setting,
having worked for two decades in campus IT. Her academic
interests include instructional technology, educational
assessment, and leadership issues.
Adetoun A. Oyelude, a Librarian in the Kenneth Dike
Library, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria with eighteen
years experience in librarianship, also teaches part-time as
Associate Lecturer in the Department of Library, Archival
and Information Studies in the University. Her research
interests are in Information and Communication Technology,
Academic Libraries, and Women and Gender Issues. She is a
member of the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) and the
American Library Association (ALA).
Herman A. Peterson has been an Associate Professor and the
Head of Reference and Instructional Services at the Morris
Library of Southern Illinois University Carbondale since
2007. He also has nine years of experience as a library
director at small academic libraries.
Melissa Kalpin Prescott is Reference Services Coordinator
and Associate Professor at St Cloud State University in
St Cloud, MN. Her research interests include library services
for undergraduates, online tutorials, Web 2.0, anti-racist
pedagogy, and leadership.
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