Susan K. Martin

The Changing Role of the Library Director: Fund-raising and the Academic Library.

Abstract With increased costs and decreased funding, it will be increasingly necessary for library directors to become hevily involved in fun-raising, or development. As the role of the director changes, he/she will need to acquire nontraditional knowledges and skills, and must simultaneously ensure that the library is operating smoothly.

Clinging to “Status:” The attitude of librarians to the non-MLS staff

In three areas, librarians often exhibit behavior and attitudes that are not conducive to allowing an organization to work smoothly as a team. These areas are: the status of paraprofesionals; the qualifications of administrative professionals such as systems librarians, budget officers, and developments officers; and, where librarians have faculty status, the role of those handful of librarians who, because of the nature of their responsibilities, are neither faculty nor paraprofesisonals

Visions: Achieving a vision in downsizing times: A series of questions

Questions to attempt to identify ways in which librarians can, or should, alter the way they regard themselves and their profession, and to bring a vision which transforms the profession from its traditonal emphasis on serving people by helping them find information in paper format, to an emphasis that suggests that librarians are the people to help the world deal with a rapidly changing world of information