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Informationen zum Autor Janneka Guise is currently Head of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library at the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has worked in large and small academic libraries across Canada since 1999. She has a Master of Music (University of Western Ontario) and a Master of Library and Information Studies (University of Alberta). In 2011 she completed the Graduate Professional Certificate in Library Sector Leadership from the University of Victoria, Canada. She has been involved in Strategic Planning and Program Assessment throughout her career, and her current interests include Developmental Evaluation, Innovation in Libraries and Succession Planning. She was Guest Editor for the December 2011 issue of the Canadian Library Association’s Feliciter, on the topic of “Boomers Busting Out?. This book is the product of work conducted during a Research Study Leave from the University of Manitoba Libraries in 2013-2014.
List of contents
Thesis
The Canadian academic library landscape
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
What is succession planning?
The changing role of the academic librarian
- Chapter 2: Literature Review
Corporate succession planning
Library succession planning
Elements of succession planning
Summary
Part one: online survey
Part two: on-site interviews
Appendix
The participants
The libraries
The themes
Summary
- Chapter 5: Best Practices
Preliminary planning
Identifying participants and conducting the talent review
Implementation, training, and feedback
Summary
Budget
Transparency and fairness
Organizational structure as a barrier
Knowledge transfer
Changing roles of librarians/archivists/libraries
Summary
Preliminary planning
Identifying participants and conducting the talent review
Implementation, training, and feedback
The end and the beginning
Conclusion
Appendix
Index
