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Pablo Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A system-wide training program in a large, urban public library system is sought relating to library administration's expectations of branch manager roles in the field while developing library leaders. This study employed a qualitative phenomenological methodology to investigate branch manager perspectives on the needs of front-facing managers and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Management Development, Urban Areas, Public Libraries
Victor Chad Freeze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is little literature on what community college library deans must do to transform the community college library into an integral part of modern community colleges. Using a qualitative approach, this study examines the roles and responsibilities of an effective leader in a community college library. Semi-structured interviews with six Texas…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Deans, Academic Libraries, Community Colleges
Kenneth S. Brundage – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined how academic library deans and directors make sense of the experience of leading through the COVID-19 pandemic. Adaptive leadership served as a theoretical framework. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten academic library leaders from a variety of institutional contexts. Transcripts were analyzed using Interpretive…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Library Role, COVID-19
Thomas L. Walker II – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Public institutions of higher education have seen mandatory state budget cuts for more than 20years, with each year's cut being larger than the previous. These statewide education cuts have affected academic libraries in a major way, resulting in purchasing cutbacks, decreased subscription renewals and cancellations. These drastic cuts in library…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Administration, Research Libraries, Budgeting
Samantha Hines – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Librarianship as a profession in America is 88% white, according to the Diversity Counts survey conducted by the American Library Association in 2009 (ALA, 2012). The United States' White and not Hispanic/Latinx population is 60.7% according to 2017 Census estimates (United States Census Bureau). The fundamental unfairness of this power dynamic…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Personnel, Personnel Selection, Personnel Integration
Joanna R. Mladic – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem undertaken in this study was the impact of the COVID-19 on academic-library directors at small, private, liberal-arts institutions in Wisconsin. The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic closures on collection development and reference interviews. The participants were seven academic-library…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Libraries, Library Personnel
Wing, Kate McGowen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Literature in the field investigates and debates the importance of the MLIS degree in librarianship. This information is of limited use in Maine where over 30% of public library directors have only a high school diploma. The research questions guiding this Constructivist Grounded Theory study are: How do high school educated library directors in…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Personnel, Library Administration, High School Graduates
Dana Adrienne Knott – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Through a critical phenomenological approach, this study captured the lived experiences of directors in the Ohio Private Academic Libraries (OPAL) consortium and their responses to dual pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of racism. Individual qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten OPAL directors to examine…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Library Administration, Pandemics, COVID-19