This essay focuses on how academic libraries can have hope despite low morale, burnout, and budgetary issues. Despite these challenging times, it is an opportunity for an employee focused future of work and life balance. It is also a time to redress relationships with historically marginalized groups by examining pay equity, workload distribution, and diversity issues. Libraries have been so focused on the yearly budget that they are not thinking about the long term issues. Libraries that survive the next budget crunch will inherit a fractured workplace if equity and diversity issues are not addressed.
{"title":"Hope for the Future","authors":"Alejandro Marquez","doi":"10.5860/llm.v37i1.7550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v37i1.7550","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on how academic libraries can have hope despite low morale, burnout, and budgetary issues. Despite these challenging times, it is an opportunity for an employee focused future of work and life balance. It is also a time to redress relationships with historically marginalized groups by examining pay equity, workload distribution, and diversity issues. Libraries have been so focused on the yearly budget that they are not thinking about the long term issues. Libraries that survive the next budget crunch will inherit a fractured workplace if equity and diversity issues are not addressed.","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136244236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Workplace bullying is a problem in many work environments and can take different forms, including spreading gossip, criticism of work, unreasonable workloads, and being excluded. It can cause physical, psychological, and emotional stress, manifesting as depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues, exhaustion, feelings of rage/despair, and in some cases, post-traumatic stress disorder or suicide. Little is known, however, about the prevalence of bullying amongst library workers in academic libraries. This comprehensive state-wide study provides a replicable model to explore workplace bullying in a systematic manner amongst all academic library workers, not just librarians.
{"title":"Louisiana Academic Library Workers and Workplace Bullying","authors":"Catherine Baird, Andrea Hebert, Justin Savage","doi":"10.5860/llm.v37i1.7553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v37i1.7553","url":null,"abstract":"Workplace bullying is a problem in many work environments and can take different forms, including spreading gossip, criticism of work, unreasonable workloads, and being excluded. It can cause physical, psychological, and emotional stress, manifesting as depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues, exhaustion, feelings of rage/despair, and in some cases, post-traumatic stress disorder or suicide. Little is known, however, about the prevalence of bullying amongst library workers in academic libraries. This comprehensive state-wide study provides a replicable model to explore workplace bullying in a systematic manner amongst all academic library workers, not just librarians.","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136244235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Communication is one of the most important elements affecting productivity and work climate in any organization. Effective organizational communication can contribute to organizational success in many ways including building employee morale, satisfaction, and engagement; giving employees a voice; reducing the chances for misunderstandings; and improving processes and procedures that ultimately create greater efficiencies. Toward that goal, creating a single internal communications hub can drastically reduce the volume of “noise” employees must wade through to access important information. CSU San Marcos Library has documented its seven-year transformation from decentralized and ineffective communication outlets to a single hub of organizational communication using a knowledge management initiative. Knowledge management is defined broadly as “the conscious process of defining, structuring, retaining, and sharing the knowledge and experience of employees within an organization” (What is knowledge management?, n.d.).
{"title":"Improving Library Organizational Communication through Intentional Knowledge Management","authors":"Ian Chan, Jennifer Fabbi","doi":"10.5860/llm.v37i1.7540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v37i1.7540","url":null,"abstract":"Communication is one of the most important elements affecting productivity and work climate in any organization. Effective organizational communication can contribute to organizational success in many ways including building employee morale, satisfaction, and engagement; giving employees a voice; reducing the chances for misunderstandings; and improving processes and procedures that ultimately create greater efficiencies. Toward that goal, creating a single internal communications hub can drastically reduce the volume of “noise” employees must wade through to access important information. CSU San Marcos Library has documented its seven-year transformation from decentralized and ineffective communication outlets to a single hub of organizational communication using a knowledge management initiative. Knowledge management is defined broadly as “the conscious process of defining, structuring, retaining, and sharing the knowledge and experience of employees within an organization” (What is knowledge management?, n.d.).","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136244237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A survey of 23 questions was sent out to various library related listservs during the fall of 2020 to investigate the unique impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally, library technical services departments conducted most, if not all, work in the office. This was mainly because all the necessary equipment, supplies and access to records would prove cumbersome and costly to establish at home. The investigators thus felt as if technical services would experience numerous challenges transitioning to working from home during the pandemic.
The results of the survey were mixed. Many but not all elements of technical services tasks were successfully completed at home. Aspects, such as lack of necessary equipment, administrative support and even Wi-Fi made it difficult to completely conduct tasks. In short, investigators found that short-term technical services operations can occur from home. Long term, however, is questionable and dependent upon individual institution’s abilities to financially support technical services.
This article hopes to illuminate systematic flaws that create obstacles for technical services employees to work from home. Hopefully, it will also expose critical issues that can be researched in the future.
{"title":"Lessons Learned about Working from Home During a Pandemic","authors":"Renee Gould, Audrey Koke, Marissa Smith","doi":"10.5860/llm.v37i1.7547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v37i1.7547","url":null,"abstract":"A survey of 23 questions was sent out to various library related listservs during the fall of 2020 to investigate the unique impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally, library technical services departments conducted most, if not all, work in the office. This was mainly because all the necessary equipment, supplies and access to records would prove cumbersome and costly to establish at home. The investigators thus felt as if technical services would experience numerous challenges transitioning to working from home during the pandemic.
 
 The results of the survey were mixed. Many but not all elements of technical services tasks were successfully completed at home. Aspects, such as lack of necessary equipment, administrative support and even Wi-Fi made it difficult to completely conduct tasks. In short, investigators found that short-term technical services operations can occur from home. Long term, however, is questionable and dependent upon individual institution’s abilities to financially support technical services.
 
 This article hopes to illuminate systematic flaws that create obstacles for technical services employees to work from home. Hopefully, it will also expose critical issues that can be researched in the future.","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136244239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.18334/lim.10.1.117083
Александр Валерьевич Ащеулов, К.В. Туманян, О В Лукьяненко
{"title":"Варианты лидерства в различных физкультурно-спортивных организациях","authors":"Александр Валерьевич Ащеулов, К.В. Туманян, О В Лукьяненко","doi":"10.18334/lim.10.1.117083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18334/lim.10.1.117083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75369722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.18334/lim.10.3.118314
Л.М. Ужахова, Т.В. Шарапова, К.А. Секачева, А. А. Парфенова
{"title":"Внутриорганизационное лидерство: стратегии поведения и контекст","authors":"Л.М. Ужахова, Т.В. Шарапова, К.А. Секачева, А. А. Парфенова","doi":"10.18334/lim.10.3.118314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18334/lim.10.3.118314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72652221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.18334/lim.10.2.117665
И. И. Парфенова, Елена Владимировна Балганова
{"title":"Роль института кураторства в формировании организационной культуры вуза","authors":"И. И. Парфенова, Елена Владимировна Балганова","doi":"10.18334/lim.10.2.117665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18334/lim.10.2.117665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81799083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Методика трансформации образовательных организаций на основе фрактально-кластерной теории","authors":"Вячеслав Теодорович Волов, А.М. Збарский, Максим Алексеевич Гаранин","doi":"10.18334/lim.10.3.118731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18334/lim.10.3.118731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39069,"journal":{"name":"Library Leadership and Management","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91372772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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