Academic law library director perspectives : case studies and insights

"The book serves as a supplemental guide to educating new law library directors. Practical in nature, it focuses on the pieces of directors' jobs that are not explicit in any written description of the job. Most chapters focus on one of the director's roles (e.g., mentor, mediator, fundraiser, opportunity seeker, politician, or committee member). Each starts with a case study to provide a realistic context in which to examine the subject, followed by analysis and commentary by successful, sitting directors. When possible, more than one commenter on a fact pattern was provided, to allow for a diversity of opinions and to highlight idea-generation over any specific solution. Other chapters cover basic issues such privacy, finances, data, and when (and how) to say no"--Publisher [verso].

Part I. General advice -- part II. Unwritten rules -- part III. Service contributions -- part IV. Developing issues.

Foreword. How to use this book / Michelle M. Wu -- Stalking a law library directorship / Charles Ten Brink & Michelle Wu -- Negotiating after receiving the directorship offer / James E. Duggan -- Financial basics / Elizabeth Edinger -- Financial basics / Spencer L. Simons -- Financial basics / Suzanne Wones -- Libraries and data / Darin K. Fox -- The three percent : common issues in nonautonomous law school libraries / Elizabeth G. Adelman -- When (and how) to say "no" / Michelle M. Wu -- Library director as negotiator/horse trader : analysis one / Billie Jo Kaufman -- Library director as negotiator/horse trader : analysis two / James S. Heller -- Library director as mentor / Penny A. Hazelton -- Library director as counselor and mediator : analysis one / Karl T. Gruben -- Library director as counselor and mediator : analysis two / Kristy Gilliland -- Library director as fundraiser : analysis / Faye E. Jones -- Library director as social butterfly (or "what does collegiality mean in the faculty standards?") : analysis one : how to be a valued faculty colleague / Mary Ann Hyatt -- Library director as social butterfly (or "what does collegiality mean in the faculty standards?") : analysis two : collegiality--Angela's first year / Duncan Alford -- Library director as opportunity identifier : analysis one / Pauline M. Aranas -- Library director as opportunity identifier : analysis two / Ronald E. Wheeler, Jr. -- Librarian director as manager of union employees : librarians : analysis one : implications of collective bargaining in universities / Taylor Fitchett -- Librarian director as manager of union employees : librarians : analysis two / Victoria J. Szymczak -- Librarian director as manager of union employees : staff : analysis one / Kristina L. Niedringhaus -- Librarian director as manager of union employees : staff : analysis two / Courtney L. Selby -- Library director as change agent : analysis one : implementing change in difficult times / Gordon Russell -- Library director as change agent : analysis two : implementing change in difficult times / Femi Cadmus -- Library director as educator : analysis one / Christopher A. Knott -- Library director as educator : analysis two : case analysis and commentary / Sally H. Wise -- Library director as politician : analysis / Filippa Marullo Anzalone -- Library director as university committee chair : analysis / Barbara A. Bintliff -- Library director as consultant : analysis / Joan S. Howland -- Two sides of the coin : the roles of the law library director in ABA sabbatical visits / Scott B. Pagel -- Law librarians' roles in modern law libraries / Richard A. Leiter -- Privacy and competing library goals : how can library directors lead when value collide? / Anne Klinefelter.