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#3 Module 4Leadership,management,supervisionand teamwork;efficient andeffectivemeetings#4 Module 5Librarypolicies andprocedures:evaluation ofnew andexisting andthe ability touphold orReading Assignment: Fundamentals of Library Supervision: Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 14· Online Journal: Based on the readings explain in 150 words or less the differences between supervision,management and leadership.· Do one of the following· Participate in an online discussion with students who are taking the course at the same time. Thediscussion will focus on students experience with disciplinary situations.· OR· Answer questions posted by the instructor related to your comments.· Online Journal: There are many leadership theories. Read at least five articles on leadership; create andpost a bibliography of the articles. Describe a leadership style your library director typically use and onenot used; compare and contrast these to your style penchants. Should you attempt to change your style?Answer questions posted by the instructor related to your comments.· Online Journal: submit an agenda for a meeting you regularly attend: either one that you lead or one thatsomeone else leads. Based on Chapter 14 describe what changes should be made to the meeting.Using ideas on teamwork, describe how you will go about introducing the suggested changes.· Online Journal or audio or video: describe the best team experience you have had in your work orpersonal life. Describe the worst. Using the Team Performance Characteristics outlined in Figure 5.1 inthe text book describe why your team succeeded or failed.Reading Assignments: Research and find five articles on identifying the need for new policies, developmentof policies and procedures, and documentation of a policies and procedure. Review existing policy andprocedures (paper and electronic) in your organization. Optional Text Book Administration of the SmallPublic Library Chapter 5· Project: Using the information you learned, write a Guide to Writing Policies and Procedures Manual foryour library. Discuss pros and cons of publication methods such as paper, intranet, etc. Include abibliography and list of policy and procedures reviewed in your organization; the bibliography shouldinclude notations that are both descriptive and evaluative. (Descriptive means your notation briefly5, 211, 7, 14, 17
makeexceptions topolicydescribes what is relevant; evaluative means your opinion about what you read.)· Do one of the following5 Module 6Budgeting,grant writing,and fundraisingandappropriateness of each;preparationandpresentation,relationship tolong rangeplan,outcomes,planning forplanning andreductions· Online Journal: drawing from your experience write at least 250 words describing a time when youhad to uphold and/or enforce a library policy with which you did not agree.· OR· Online Journal or audio or video cast: drawing from your experience write, narrate or video (about150 words) describing a time when you made a decision to make an exception to a policy. Inretrospect would you make the same decision?Reading Assignment: Fundamentals of Library Supervision: Chapter 12, 16, Optional Text BookAdministration of the Small Public Library Chapter 2, 6,http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/advocacy/advocacyuniversity/budgetpresentation/index.cfm· Online Journal: Develop and post a bibliography on financial development strategies for a library. Interviewyour library director and an administrator in another library. Ask them to explain the different fundingpurposes of the library’s budget, grants, and fund-raising. Summarize the information in table format andpost in your online journal.· Online Journal: Meet with your library’s business manager or accountant and ask them for an overview ofthe budget cycle and how the library prepares and monitors its budget. Ask your director how they preparetheir oral remarks to their governing board or council; in particular ask them to discuss whether the budgetis related to the library’s long range plan and outcomes. Summarize in written, audio or video format.· Online Journal: write about an experience you had preparing and presenting and monitoring a budget. Howdid your measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the funds spent? If you had to make reductions in thisprogram, what strategy would you use to plan and implement the reductions? Discuss your recommendedstrategies.· Obtain copies of three grants: one may be from your library. In 250-300 words compare and contrast the keyelements of the grants.8, 20
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