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Library Leadership: Observations and Questions

Author(s) -

Donald E. Riggs

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

college and research libraries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 2150-6701

pISSN - 0010-0870

DOI - 10.5860/crl.60.1.6

Subject(s) - computer science , information retrieval , data science , world wide web

Before 1980, articles and books on library leadership were scarce. While doing re search for one of the first books (Library Leadership: Visualizing the Future) on the topic,1 I could not find any books on li brary leadership in Books in Print. Perus ing issues of Library Literature from 1975 to 1981, I was astonished to find only five entries containing the words leadership and leaders. It is difficult to comprehend why people holding responsible positions in libraries were reluctant to articulate the importance of leadership for so long. However, in recent years, we have wit nessed some good pieces on library lead ership. For example, Terrence F. Mech and Gerard B. McCabe have assembled an exciting book titled Leadership and Academic Libraries that contains nineteen chapters on different dimensions of aca demic library leadership.2 This book should be added to the reading list of anyone interested in learning more about this topic.

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