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Leading Ethically Ii Spc 506, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2019

Leading Ethically Ii Spc 506, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Leading Ethically I Spc 505, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2019

Leading Ethically I Spc 505, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Capstone Project: Nonprofit Leadership Ii Spc 551, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2019

Capstone Project: Nonprofit Leadership Ii Spc 551, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Capstone Project: Nonprofit Leadership I Spc 550, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2019

Capstone Project: Nonprofit Leadership I Spc 550, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Evaluating The Job Performance Of Librarians In Universities In South-East, Nigeria., Obinna A. Nwokike Phd, Vincent E. Unegbu Phd May 2019

Evaluating The Job Performance Of Librarians In Universities In South-East, Nigeria., Obinna A. Nwokike Phd, Vincent E. Unegbu Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Job performance consists of a set of employees’ behaviours that are perceived to be in agreement with organizational goals that can be measured, monitored and assessed as an achievement at an individual level. The librarian’s job performance is that aspect of work behaviour that is of relevance to the library’s success. This paper presents findings from a self-rating questionnaire on the levels of job performance of librarians in universities in one region of Nigeria. The study was carried out using a cross-sectional survey design to collect data from 210 respondents in 21 universities based on total enumeration. Data was analyzed …


Ua3/10/2 Wku Commons At Helm Library, Wku President's Office - Caboni Feb 2019

Ua3/10/2 Wku Commons At Helm Library, Wku President's Office - Caboni

WKU Administration Documents

Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding construction of WKU Commons.


Not What You Expected: Implementing Design Thinking As A Leadership Practice, Michelle Boisvenue-Fox, Kristin Meyer Jan 2019

Not What You Expected: Implementing Design Thinking As A Leadership Practice, Michelle Boisvenue-Fox, Kristin Meyer

Books and Contributions to Books

Changing user needs have created new opportunities for libraries, requiring evolving leadership practices that support innovation and rapid change. Design thinking can provide leaders with a concrete process to move toward action. The authors – one an executive administrator at a large, multi-branch public library, the other an academic librarian who leads a small team – share how design thinking has positively influenced their leadership practices. The benefits of implementing this flexible process have included improved user experience, more creative solutions, wise investments, staff empowerment, increased transparency and trust, and employee learning and development. Both leaders experienced these benefits even …


Academic Libraries And Toxic Leadership, Alma C. Ortega Jan 2019

Academic Libraries And Toxic Leadership, Alma C. Ortega

Dissertations

Toxic leadership has yet to be officially recognized as an area of inquiry in the field of library and information studies. Indeed, the literature on academic libraries is only now beginning to address the topic. None of this should be surprising because leadership, in general, continues to be an under-discussed topic in the library and information studies literature.

The topic of leadership, of course, is the central theoretical construct of the leadership studies field, and, in this field, toxic leadership has been systematically studied and discussed. This literature reveals the negative consequences of having a toxic leader as the head …