Good workplaces require both autonomy—giving employees a sense of ownership over how and where they work—and collaboration in pursuit of common goals. They see employees for who they are and support them, pay them enough money to live comfortably, and provide the resources, training, and support they need to be successful.
In two parts,
Innovative Library Workplaces provides the tools you need to make your workplace a good one for your employees.
- Human Resources in Libraries
- Recruiting and Hiring
- Onboarding and Training
- Salary Studies and Unions
- Work Culture and Organization
- Employee Morale
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Strategic Planning and Reorganizing
Though this book took root during the pandemic, it is not of the pandemic: The changes wrought are permanent.
Innovative Library Workplaces proposes a way forward after this monumental disruption, recognizing that neither the pandemic nor the work culture prior to it is a good model for what comes next.
Introduction
Part
1. Human Resources in Libraries
Recruiting and Hiring
Chapter
1. HR as Strategic Partner: Practical Approaches for Building HR
Capacity in an Academic Library Setting
Cinthya Ippoliti
Chapter
2. Subvert the Dominant Paradigm: Reimagining Academic Library
Hiring Processes
Xan Arch and Isaac Gilman
Chapter
3. Toward a Growth-Based Paradigm: Centering Candidate Experiences
in the Hiring and Onboarding Processes
Annie BÉlanger, Sheila Garcia-Mazari, and Bruna Ngassa
Chapter
4. Moving toward More Inclusive Hiring
Lea J. Briggs and Rodney Lippard
Onboarding and Training
Chapter
5. Paving the Way for Professional Success with an Onboarding Road
Map
Joyce Garczynski
Chapter
6. Beyond Onboarding: Developing a Library Tenure Success Program
Kim Clarke
Chapter
7. Continuous Professional Development for Academic Library
Employees
Lisa Kallman Hopkins
Chapter
8. Succession Planning from the Middle
Brynne Norton and Jennifer E. M. Cotton
Salary Studies and Unions
Chapter
9. Assessing Salary Equitably: A Review and Case Study of UVA
Librarys Salary Review and Adjustment Initiative
Mira Waller, Carla Lee, Donna Tolson, and Gail White
Chapter
10. A Salary Study Model for Academic Libraries: Leveraging
Strategic Salary Studies to Generate Library Employee Goodwill
Bridgit McCafferty and Shawna Kennedy-Witthar
Chapter
11. Employee Unions in Academic Libraries: Something Old and
Something New
Bridgit McCafferty
Part II. Work Culture and Organization
Employee Morale
Chapter
12. Wellness Initiatives in Academic Libraries
Dawn M. Harris, Bridgit McCafferty, Sandra Yvette Desjardins, and Johnnie
Porter
Chapter
13. Offering More Than Just a Desk and Chair: Combatting Librarian
Burnout
Jennifer Batson, Kelly Williams, Margaret Dawson, and Sandra Yvette
Desjardins
Chapter
14. Damp, Dark, and Dull: Addressing the Impact of Library Workspace
Woes on Health, Productivity, and Morale
Melinda H. Berg, Janet Chan, Janet Schalk, and Ann Coppola
Flexible Work Arrangements
Chapter
15. The New Normal: An Empirical Examination of Remote Work in
Academic Libraries
Lisa Kallman Hopkins, Andria F. Schwegler, Rebecca L. Hopkins, and Bridgit
McCafferty
Chapter
16. Flexible Work Empowers: An Inclusive Strategy for Recruitment
and Retention of Academic Librarians
Dana Reijerkerk and Kristen J. Nyitray
Strategic Planning and Reorganizing
Chapter
17. Empowering Employees through Strategic Initiatives
Jessica J. Boyer
Chapter
18. Breaking Down Structures to Build Up Staff: Organizational
Change in an Academic Library
Isaac Gilman
Chapter
19. Envision, Revision, and Balance: A Case Study of a
Participation-Based, Employee-Focused Academic Library Unit Restructuring
Vickie Albrecht, Kristy McKeown, Coralee Leroux, and Geoff Sinclair
Chapter
20. Rebuilding the Structure at a Medium-Sized Research Library: A
Case Study
Kimberly Burke Sweetman
Chapter
21. Rightsizing Technical Services: Practical Adaptations for
Rapidly Evolving Libraries
Kathaleen McCormick, Kristy White, and Tracie Ballock
Chapter
22. Calming the Chaos of Library Technology
Todd R. Digby and Laurie N. Taylor
About the Editors and Authors
Lisa Kallman Hopkins is an associate librarian at Texas A&M University-Central Texas in Killeen near Fort Cavazos. She is the head of Technical Services and assistant dean of the University Library and Archives. In her role as head of Technical Services, she is directly responsible for systems and e-resources and manages cataloging and acquisitions, interlibrary loan, e-reserves, and textbook reserves. She is the university copyright specialist and copyeditor. She has submitted chapters to Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services: Perspectives on Collaboration within and across Libraries and Technical Services: Adapting to the Changing Environment; has coauthored a chapter in Universal Design for Learning in Academic Libraries: Theory into Practice; and has coedited this book. Bridgit McCafferty is the dean of the University Library and Archives at Texas A&M University-Central Texas and has led the library for eleven years. Prior to this, she was in charge of reference and instruction services. She has taken on major administrative projects for her university, including recently chairing the SACSCOC Accreditation Reaffirmation Compliance Committee. She is the author of Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians and the coauthor of British Postmodernism: Strategies and Sources.
