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Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries
1st Edition - October 6, 2015
Author: Janneka Guise
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780081001462
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eBook ISBN:9780128023723
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Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The liter…Read more
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Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment. The literature review demonstrates the lack of reported succession planning activities in Canadian academic libraries. Site visits and in-depth interviews with professional librarians at six libraries across Canada highlight best practices and barriers to succession planning. These best practices and barriers are addressed in individual chapters, with tips and strategies for library leaders.
Focuses on the Canadian academic library
Includes a comprehensive literature review on succession planning in academic libraries
Provides evidence-based approach to why succession planning is or is not happening in Canadian academic libraries
Academic librarians, information professionals, managers and students
List of tables
About the author
1. Introduction
Thesis
The Canadian academic library landscape
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
What is succession planning?
The changing role of the academic librarian
2. Literature review
Corporate succession planning
Library succession planning
Elements of succession planning
Summary
3. Methodology
Part one: online survey
Part two: on-site interviews
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
4. Themes
The participants
The libraries
The themes
Summary
5. Best practices
Preliminary planning
Identifying participants and conducting the talent review
Implementation, training, and feedback
Summary
6. Barriers
Budget
Transparency and fairness
Organizational structure as a barrier
Knowledge transfer
Changing roles of librarians/archivists/libraries
Summary
7. Implications
Preliminary planning
Identifying participants and conducting the talent review
Implementation, training, and feedback
The end and the beginning
Conclusion
Appendix
References and further reading
Index
No. of pages: 124
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: October 6, 2015
Imprint: Chandos Publishing
Paperback ISBN: 9780081001462
eBook ISBN: 9780128023723
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Janneka Guise
Janneka Guise is currently Head of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library at the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has worked in large and small academic libraries across Canada since 1999. She has a Master of Music (University of Western Ontario) and a Master of Library and Information Studies (University of Alberta). In 2011 she completed the Graduate Professional Certificate in Library Sector Leadership from the University of Victoria, Canada. She has been involved in Strategic Planning and Program Assessment throughout her career, and her current interests include Developmental Evaluation, Innovation in Libraries and Succession Planning. She was Guest Editor for the December 2011 issue of the Canadian Library Association’s Feliciter, on the topic of “Boomers Busting Out”. This book is the product of work conducted during a Research Study Leave from the University of Manitoba Libraries in 2013-2014.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library, University of Manitoba, Canada.
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