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From: Robert Farrell <robert.farrell.lib@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:10:49 -0400
Subject: [DIGLIB] rfp: Managing in the Middle (ALA Editions) - REMINDER
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Request for Proposals

Publication Title: Managing in the Middle: The Librarian's Handbook
Publisher: American Library Association (Fall 2011)
Editors: Robert Farrell and Kenneth Schlesinger (Leonard Lief Library,
Lehman College, CUNY)
Contact: inthemiddle2011@gmail.com

Scope: This "grab and go" volume for ALA's Librarian's Handbook series
seeks brief, real world articles of use to mid-level managers in academic
and public libraries.

Topic and Audience: Top-level library managers, responding to contemporary
trends, are increasingly delegating responsibilities to those in the middle,
demanding innovation and entrepreneurial creativity, as well as
accountability and day-to-day coordination of staff and services. Today's
mid-level managers face a variety of new supervisory challenges. Of the
roughly 70,000 academic and public librarians, about a third find themselves
"managing in the middle:" reporting to top-level managers while supervising
teams of peers or support staff. Our target audiences are current mid-level
library managers, new librarians assuming these roles, and library
management students looking for grounded insight into the administrative
issues they'll soon be facing.

Authors: We invite essays from those who know the realities of the job
best: those managing in the middle. We also seek perspectives from
management experts, former mid-level managers, scholars, nascent
supervisors, top-level managers, as well as librarians and paraprofessionals
who have been "middle managed." A variety of formats are encouraged: "how
to," interviews with practitioners, case studies, illuminating anecdotes,
brief tips, theory in practice pieces, rants and confessionals, annotated
bibliographies, etc.

Some possible themes for consideration include:
* middle manager as leader and entrepreneur
* management expectations of middle managers
* "sandwich effect" – getting it from above and below
* real world applications of leadership principles and management techniques
* developing reflective management practices
* project management: best practices and skills, challenges and successes
* managing the top-level manager
* supervising administrative units and empowering work teams
* risk taking and learning from failure
* both sides now: conflict resolution from the middle
* communicating and listening in the middle
* recruiting, training, retaining
* building trust and morale
* coaching, facilitating, mentoring
* goal setting and annual evaluations
* nightmare bosses and problem employees
* creative problem solving: achieving the impossible

Length, Timeline, Compensation: Proposals due November 1, 2010. First drafts
will be due by or before March 31, 2011 and any revisions requested will be
due May 30, 2011 (Memorial Day). The final manuscript is due September 2011.
Contributors will receive a free copy of the publication and discounts on
subsequent copies. Finished pieces should be between 1900 and 2500 words
(longer pieces will be considered if they can be subdivided).

Please submit a one-page proposal (multiple ideas encouraged) including a
biographical sketch by November 1, 2010 to: inthemiddle2011@gmail.com.
Brief e-mail queries or questions about the project are also welcome.

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Regards
Fatima Darries

E-LIS SA Editor

http://eprints.rclis.org

www.highedlibrarian.blogspot.com
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