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In this unconventional management book, author Susan Carol Curzon presents a different take on traditional library management tools. Through personal narrative and anecdotes from other working professionals, Curzon presents the many everyday challenges one meets as a library manage.

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"Curzon has decades of experience working in academic and public libraries. In this second edition of her 2014 book, she offers a new chapter discussing assessment, idea flow, and diversity and inclusion.... It addresses many practical day-to-day topics not covered in library-management textbooks, such as what to do when surprised by a reporter in the stacks or how to handle a coworker's death. Librarians considering moving into a director position will appreciate the last chapter (""Do You Want To Be a Director?"") and the various quotes from successful librarians scattered throughout. Unique supplemental reading for aspiring library directors or those interested in an insider's view of successful library management. Luckily for us, Susan has taken the unwritten rules, strategies and wisdom managers must know and written them down. The real power of the book as a must-read for the new, newer or more seasoned top level or middle level manager; however, is the way one might use the text as either a narrative checklist to decide if management is for them at all, or as a process to determining what is working and what isn't working about their position. Not to be missed is Chapter 12 ""Do you want to be a director?"" which I think should be read and integrated into not only ones internal decision making but interviews for any new or ""next"" management position. Sue Curzon's updated and still indispensable guide for library directors successfully brings her sage advice in the first edition into the world of social media and digital resources. In her distinctive conversational style Dr. Curzon leads directors at all career stages and in any library through the thicket of issues we all confront at some point. Anyone leading a library in needs this book close at hand. Susan Curzon has written an eminently accessible and highly practical book on library leadership, based on many years of experience in different types of libraries. Read this book slowly -- and then read it again - because there are lots of nuggets of wisdom here. We always want an inside track on positions, especially those that come with great responsibility and influence over organizational health and political savvy. Dr. Susan Carol Curzon's What Every Library Director Should Know exceeds in that desire, by providing an in depth perspective on topics of humanistic responses to situations, activities and position accountability that comes with a leadership title."

We always want an inside track on positions, especially those that come with great responsibility and influence over organizational health and political savvy. Dr. Susan Carol Curzon's What Every Library Director Should Know exceeds in that desire, by providing an in depth perspective on topics of humanistic responses to situations, activities and position accountability that comes with a leadership title.--Michael A. Crumpton, professor and dean of the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"Luckily for us, Susan has taken the unwritten rules, strategies and wisdom managers must know and written them down. The real power of the book as a must-read for the new, newer or more seasoned top level or middle level manager; however, is the way one might use the text as either a narrative checklist to decide if management is for them at all, or as a process to determining what is working and what isn't working about their position. Not to be missed is Chapter 12 ""Do you want to be a director?"" which I think should be read and integrated into not only ones internal decision making but interviews for any new or ""next"" management position.--Julie Beth Todaro, PhD, dean of Library Services and 2016-2017 president of the American Library Association Sue Curzon's updated and still indispensable guide for library directors successfully brings her sage advice in the first edition into the world of social media and digital resources. In her distinctive conversational style Dr. Curzon leads directors at all career stages and in any library through the thicket of issues we all confront at some point. Anyone leading a library in needs this book close at hand.--Emily Miller Bonney, PhD, Dean Pollak Library, professor of liberal studies, California State University Fullerton Susan Curzon has written an eminently accessible and highly practical book on library leadership, based on many years of experience in different types of libraries. Read this book slowly -- and then read it again - because there are lots of nuggets of wisdom here.--Mark Stover, Ph.D., dean, University Library, California State University, Northridge We always want an inside track on positions, especially those that come with great responsibility and influence over organizational health and political savvy. Dr. Susan Carol Curzon's What Every Library Director Should Know exceeds in that desire, by providing an in depth perspective on topics of humanistic responses to situations, activities and position accountability that comes with a leadership title.--Michael A. Crumpton, professor and dean of the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro"

Susan Curzon has written an eminently accessible and highly practical book on library leadership, based on many years of experience in different types of libraries. Read this book slowly -- and then read it again - because there are lots of nuggets of wisdom here.--Mark Stover, Ph.D., dean, University Library, California State University, Northridge We always want an inside track on positions, especially those that come with great responsibility and influence over organizational health and political savvy. Dr. Susan Carol Curzon's What Every Library Director Should Know exceeds in that desire, by providing an in depth perspective on topics of humanistic responses to situations, activities and position accountability that comes with a leadership title.--Michael A. Crumpton, professor and dean of the University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Dr. Susan Carol Curzon is the dean emeritus of the University Library of California State University, Northridge. Previous positions include director of libraries for the City of Glendale, California, and regional administrator for the County of Los Angeles Public Library. She also has experience in a corporate library. She also has taught library administration and public administration courses. She was Library Journal’s “Librarian of the Year.” Library management, disaster management and information literacy have been the primary topics of her numerous speeches and articles. She is the author of Managing the Interview and Managing Change and the co-editor of Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program. Dr. Curzon continues to provide consulting services for libraries, for universities and for municipalities on strategic management, disaster recovery, and building planning.

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