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Department Chair Faculty Development Activities And Leadership Practices: University Libraries Faculty Perceptions, Dana Wayne Rippy Boden

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This survey study determined university library faculty perceptions of their department chair’s leadership practices and role in faculty development. Literature on library department chairs has traditionally focused on supervisory and/or management issues. The main focus of the library leadership literature has been deans or directors. Roles of chairs of postsecondary teaching departments have been researched for many years. Academic library faculty differ from teaching department faculty in that: nearly two thirds are female; they enter the profession at an older average age; are employed on a twelve month basis, while being required to meet criteria for a successful bid for …