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Managing Change: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, Revised Edition
By Susan Carol Curzon

1-55570-553-7 . 2006 . 8 1/2 x 11 . 129 pp.
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Change is good...if you manage it well

Guiding staff and organizations through turbulent times—budget cuts, personnel shortages, new technologies, reorganization and consolidation—is an absolutely necessary skill for today’s library managers. Susan Curzon, one of Library Journal’s Librarians of the Year, has completely revised her classic change how-to, recommended as “required reading” by Online. She outlines the step-by-step processes and detailed instructions necessary for conceptualizing the issues; planning; preparing; decision-making; controlling resistance; ; and implementing changes. Practical guidance for dealing with technology’s impact on libraries, applying the latest research in change management, and developing new strategies for coping with change are included. An all new “Teaching Tools” section—featuring sample scenarios; questions and discussion points; coaching prompts; motivational tips; and more—helps administrators share the knowledge with their staffs and colleagues. Here is the How-To to help you not only cope—but thrive—in our constantly changing library environment.

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Praise for Previous Edition

“…required reading…” Online

“…helps the reader view change logically…a valuable resource to the …librarians who is anticipating any necessary changes…” The Book Report

Managing Change may become a constant companion.” Canadian Library Journal

“A concise and clear summary from an experienced and accomplished librarian.” Doody’s Book Review

“Recommended for those how need a booktalk starter or simply a list of recent titles to booktalk.” Teacher Librarian



Table of Contents

Managing Change

 

 

Foreword by Michael Gorman

vii

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Graphic Overview of Plan

xii

 

 

Part I: Managing Change Successfully

 

Chapter 1: How to Conceptualize Change

3

Chapter 2: How to Prepare the Organization for Change

15

Chapter 3: How to Organize the Planning Group

25

Chapter 4: How to Plan the Change

33

Chapter 5: How to Decide What Needs to Change

49

Chapter 6: How to Manage Individuals during Change

57

Chapter 7: How to Control Resistance to Change

69

Chapter 8: How to Implement the Change

77

Chapter 9: How to Evaluate the Change

91

Chapter 10: How to Succeed: The Fifteen Key Points

103

 

 

Part II: Practicing Change Management

 

Change Scenarios

109

Change Scenario 1: Adjusting to the Budget Cut

110

Change Scenario 2: Cleaning Up the Cataloging Backlog

111

Change Scenario 3: Improving Poor Service at Reference

113

Change Scenario 4: Controlling Unruly Students

114

Change Scenario 5: Removing the Homeless from the Doorway

114

Change Scenario 6: Resisting Outsourcing

116

Change Scenario 7: Dealing with Pornography in the Library

117

Change Scenario 8: Handling Managers in Conflict

118

Change Scenario 9: Succeeding an Unfit Director

119

Change Scenario 10: Competing for a Staff Increase

120

Change Scenario 11: Reorganizing Request due to Staff Romance

121

Change Scenario 12: Compromising the Uses of New Space

122

Change Scenario 13: Receiving the Cold Shoulder

123

Change Scenario 14: Taking the Place of a Retired Director

124

Change Scenario 15: Accepting a Wealthy Donor’s Useless Collection

124

 

 

Index

127

About the Author

129

 

 





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