Sources: The Academic Library Administrator's Field Guide

Library administration is a learned skill. Aspiring library leaders can certainly read about management theory in library school, but it's impossible for them to effectively navigate the terrain until they land that first job as an administrator and begin getting on-the-job training. That being said, some guides can help chart the way. The Academic Library Administrator's Field Guide, a new addition to the corpus, is an excellent resource for newbies and more experienced hands.

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Doctor Edwards Deming – a Thinker Against Time

Quality and life ◽

10.34214/2312-5209-2020-27-3-5-10 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 5-10

Author(s):

Yu.P. Adler ◽

Keyword(s):

Job Training ◽

Sampling Methods ◽

Management Practice ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Mathematical Statistics ◽

Management Theory ◽

Modern World ◽

Human Endeavor ◽

On The Job Training

Dr. Edwards Deming, whose 120th birthday falls on October 14, 2020, has made outstanding contributions to management theory and practice, mathematical statistics and many other areas of human endeavor. This work, written for the anniversary of E. Deming, examines the paradoxes arising from his teachings. They relate, inter alia, to competition, motivation and remuneration, the use of sampling methods, on-the-job training, operational definitions and much more. Resolving these paradoxes is the path to a deeper understanding of the modern world and to the improvement of management practice. Already during Deming’s lifetime, numerous attempts were made to revise his teachings, and now there is a desire to abandon the use and development of his heritage. This is alarming and worrying.

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Teaching Me to Teach

Virginia Libraries ◽

10.21061/valib.v59i1.1249 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Katelyn R. Tucker

Keyword(s):

Job Training ◽

Library School ◽

On The Job Training ◽

First Time ◽

Instructional Training

Do you remember the first time you ever taught a class in the library? Who taught you how to teach? According to a survey administered by Julien and Genuis, 86.2% of librarians prepared themselves for instructional work informally while on the job. Westbrock and Fabian found that librarians learn the ACRL Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators through self-teaching or on-the-job training, not through library school courses. It seems like we are choosing to employ the sink-or-swim method of instructional training: throw new librarians into the classroom and hope that they manage to stay afloat. This method is detrimental to the instruction program, the librarian, and the students.

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