02. Governance and Administration

Boardmanship

Or: Who Does What? When you were hired as the library’s director, you became an employee of your library’s board...

Or: Free Libraries Aren’t Cheap! Your library board is legally responsible for establishing the library’s budget and for practicing good...

Or: And I Thought We Were Friends! Human Resources (HR) Policy At the heart of any good personnel management system...

Or: Is All This Legal? You don’t have to be an attorney to be a library director, but you do...

Or: If I Knew Where We Were Going, I Wouldn’t Be Lost! Planning is an important part of the work...

Or: Can You Put That in Writing? We like to think of libraries as peaceful, quiet places where people are...

Or: Where’s the Light Switch? A brand new director walked into her one-person library for the first time. She had...

Or: Count on It! Some people get uncomfortable when the topic of statistics comes up. They envision complicated mathematical formulas...