ABOUT THIS BOOKMany of us arrive in supervisory positions with little or no formal training in academic library leadership. We attempt to teach ourselves the skills we need to be good managers and organizational leaders while juggling our own identity shifts and insecurities.
Critical Library Leadership: Managing Self and Others in Today’s Academic Library provides practical, library-specific, hands-on tools that help us shape our approach to leadership and ourselves as leaders. It gives practical strategies for dealing with stress and addressing feelings of insecurity alongside managing the organization from an equity perspective that places people at the forefront. Each section offers a mixture of theory and research, lived experience, and practice that captures many different techniques you can apply to your own journey and organizational context in both formal and informal ways.
Part I: Leader as Self
Section I: Care, Empathy, and Authenticity
Section II: Career Development
Part II: Leader as Role
Section III: Relationships with Others
Section IV: Management Practices
Critical Library Leadership offers a sense of recognition and of community, new ideas for personal and organizational practice, and a renewed appreciation for the immense amount of affective, emotional, and practical labor that is required of each of us as leaders.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYKristin Henrich worked as a librarian for sixteen years, including serving as associate dean at the University of Idaho and preceded by roles as head of user and research services, reference coordinator, and reference and instruction librarian. Kristin is currently earning a JD at the University of Idaho where she serves as the chief articles editor for the Idaho Law Review; her research interests include data privacy, consumer protection, and managing change.
Cinthya Ippoliti has been a librarian for over 20 years and has held roles at a wide variety of academic institutions. Most recently, as director of the Auraria Library, Cinthya provides direct administrative leadership for library services, spaces, partnerships, and programming on the tri-institutional Auraria Campus which includes the University of Colorado, Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Community College of Denver and serves approximately 35,000 highly diverse students in an urban setting. Prior to joining the Auraria Library she was the associate dean for research and learning services at Oklahoma State University and head of teaching and learning at the University of Maryland Libraries. Her research interests include psychology of leadership, organizational development, and managing change.