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Leadership Challenges Facing The Uae Academic Libraries During Covid-19: A Dyadic Perspective, Sophia Johnson, Rajasekhara Potluri

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose – The purpose of the research is to explore library patrons' and leaders' perspectives regarding the key challenges facing during COVID-19 and issues to be addressed in managing libraries in the UAE.

Design/methodology/approach– The researchers collected 300 patrons' and 50 library leaders' opinions by administering two types of questionnaires that tested its reliability and validity by implementing Cronbach Alpha and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) tests. The collected data were analyzed using the R language in R Studio Software. The selected hypotheses were tested by employing the Kruskal-Wallis (K-W) hypotheses technique.

Findings – The researchers identified innumerable challenges the library leaders …

Leadership And Leadership Development To Transform The Academic Libraries: A Case Of The United Arab Emirates (Uae), Sophia Johnson, Rajasekhara Mouly Potluri

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose –The paper aims to emphasize library leaders' perspectives on leadership and leadership development in the United Arab Emirates' (UAE)'s academic libraries to shed light on identifying best practices to improve the present condition.

Design/methodology/approach– The researchers comprehensively reviewed the appropriate literature related to academic leadership in libraries and the skills required to develop and transform the libraries in the digital age.

Findings –The researchers identified a severe scarcity of inspirational and transformation leaders who influenced the academic institutions' decision-makers to get all types of support and cooperation to enhance the quality service delivery with all the required resources to …

Emotional Intelligence: A Bibliometric Analysis And Implication For Future Research, Furkan Yousaf, Mohamad Noorman Masrek, Farrah Diana Saiful Bahry

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Emotional Intelligence is a growing field that can be traced from the research publishing from the year when Salovey & Mayer coined EI terminology. However, this field is still lacking synthesizing, chronological, and systematic studies focusing on how EI field has flourished. The objective of current study was to extend the state-of-the-art research work in the field of EI, based on bibliometric research studies published during 2000-2020. The result of the study depicted under subsequent perspectives: growth trend of EI, influential institutions, countries, articles, authors, keywords, and journals, and international collaborations. A publication growth in EI research gradually increase but …