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    The Saboteur in the Academic Library
    (Routledge, 2022-11-30) Dohe, Kate; Emmelhainz, Celia; Seale, Maura; Pappas, Erin
    In 1944, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services released the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Originally intended to aid the WWII-era citizen in committing small acts of sabotage within an enemy organization, the Field Manual developed a second life on social media after its declassification, as its advice on how to make erroneous decisions, stonewall, and lead others astray echoed the pitfalls of modern office work. We observe that academic library staff also use ‘neutral’ actions to actively delay and derail work, including an insistence on following proper channels, creating committees, haggling over precise language, and holding unnecessary meetings. This chapter shows how academic libraries find themselves uniquely susceptible to unintentional and willful saboteurs alike. Library saboteurs have the potential to derail and impede our organizational missions, as well as to push back against toxic leadership and mismanagement. This chapter explores the power and powerlessness of the library saboteur, and outlines how staff at all levels can identify the saboteur in the next cubicle—and in their own learned behavior.
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    Ebook Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Examining Preference, Management, and Purchasing Patterns.
    (Choice, 2020) Novak, John; Day, Annette; Ohler, L. Angie
    The practice of acquiring ebooks and managing them within the collection is complex. Through survey results and a review of the literature, this report attempts to measure the significance of the ebook format within the collection, the procedures and preferences academic libraries have for acquiring ebooks, and the perceptions librarians have of the acquisition and management workflows. This survey and white paper aim to provide empirical context around the factors that are having the most influence on the way academic libraries acquire and integrate ebooks into their collections.
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    Developing library programming for non departmental student programs (video)
    (2020-08-14) Sly, Jordan
    Of interest to attendees, this presentation will demonstrate usable strategies and ways of developing meaningful and mutually beneficial outreach and program development to groups outside the traditional academic departmental structure. Video of the presentation detailed here, http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26365 Video available here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcf3NcjJl4c&list=PL_Om9ECe0E2lbxssjd2NNj4RPDiijGRfB&index=14
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    Developing a New Model and Organizational Framework for Liaison Librarians
    (ACRL, 2020) Luckert, Yelena; White, Gary W
    This chapter covers the developments arising from two major task forces at the University of Maryland Libraries, a Liaison Librarian task force and the Research Commons task force. Using Kotter’s Eight Stage Process, the authors discuss the planning and initial phases of these ideas, the work of the task forces, and communication to the library organization about the need and urgency for this work, as well as the subsequent steps taken since the final reports were submitted.