An Education Institute Webinar

 

March 23, 2017   2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

 

 

Library job postings are often dominated by an overwhelming list of duties and qualifications. We discuss a lot of aspects of librarianship that we aren’t prepared for before that first professional position. Likewise, managing a library always seemed like something that one works towards slowly building skills: instruction, collection development, management, and so on. But what about when your first position requires all of these skills?

 

Jelena’s first contract was a solo librarian position in a departmental library. This was a major challenge but also the best into-the-deep-end learning experience. After talking with her colleagues at other libraries, she realized that she was not alone in this experience. Whether managing an entire library or a few workers, early-career librarians often find themselves in positions that require balancing authority, accountability, and a lack of management experience.

 

This webinar will cover challenges of early-career library management, strategies for success, success stories and triumphs from Jelena’s experience as a solo librarian/ manager and how institutions and librarians can support early-career management.

 

Key outcomes:

Preparing themselves for management roles early in their career
Developing strategies for navigating through often-confusing institutions (‘Who do I call for that?")
Learning from an early-career librarian’s experiences in order to better help their colleagues.

 

Presenter:

Jelena Stankovic is an early-career academic librarian and a recent graduate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Information with a degree in Library & Information Science and Book History & Print Culture. She has recently finished her first contract position at the A.D. Allen Chemistry Library at University of Toronto. Her interests are instruction, scholarly communication, open culture, and, of course, libraries.