Document Type

Book Contribution

Publication Date

5-2024

Publication Title

Critical Library Leadership: Managing Self and Others in Today’s Academic Library

Publisher

Association of College and Research Libraries

Abstract

Organizational change generally and reorganization especially can inherently cause feelings of nervousness and tension. This chapter discusses the moving parts of an organizational transformation to an R1 library and how communication and consensus-building efforts at multiple levels of the library are vital to this kind of transition. Prior to their library’s reorganization, the three authors worked on three different teams across two different units. After the reorganization, the authors were positioned in the same department within a new division in the library and faced the challenge of leading their teams in a new structural environment. Clemson University’s mascot is the tiger; rather than herding cats, the authors found themselves shepherding tigers into a new organizational structure.

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