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Curzon, Susan Carol. Managing Change: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, rev. ed. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2005. ISBN 1-55570-553- 7. $55.00.
Who knew that making a change included so many steps? Curzon does an amazing job of breaking the process of change down into the different phases that lead to a successful transition within your library. This book includes two parts: "Managing Change Successfully" and "Practicing Change Management." In Part 1, managers learn how to prepare library staff for an upcoming change, control resistance to change, and implement the change. Part 2 includes fifteen change scenarios (case studies) that are meant to be used to train management and staff in using the principles covered in Part 1. By deconstructing the process into logical steps, Curzon makes the process of implementing change within libraries seem manageable. This systematic writing style makes this guide an easy read, and the crucial content should be read by every library manager.
Nicole C. Engard is the Web Manager at Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia, PA, the author of the What I Learned Today... blog, and the Co- Newsletter Editor for the Drexel University Chapter of the SLA.
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Tucker, Cory and Reeta Sinha. New Librarian, New Job: Practical Advice for Managing the Transition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. ISBN 0810858517. $45.00.
New Librarian, New Job touches on what a new librarian needs to know in four sections, with chapters covering specific subtopics. "Getting Started" covers the move from school to work, "Library Departments" details the specifics of different working units of libraries, and "Career Advancement" provides advice seeking continuous professional development. The fourth section of the book, "Survival Skills for Your First (or Fifteenth!) Year," will be most helpful for new librarians, providing chapters on time management, organizational politics and effectively dealing with technology. This book is recommended for both new librarians and those in information science programs.
Sarah DeSanctis Neidert is a public services librarian at the Baldwin Public Library in Birmingham, Michigan.