Events

The E-Resources Management Committee Meeting meets monthly via Zoom. Contact the committee chair or CARLI staff with any questions.

Location: Elgin Community College, 1700 Spartan Drive, Building C, Elgin, IL 60123. Room C120. 

Directions: The Renner Academic Library and Learning Resources.

Parking: There is a small parking lot by the library entrance at Building C. If that is full, visitors can park in the lot near Building A, right around Gail Shadwell Drive. 

Registration: To register, please click the "Register" tab above. The registration deadline is September 20. Light refreshments will be available during the session.

If you have any questions, please email CARLI Support.

Location: Old Main, Knox College, 371 S. West Street, Galesburg

Directions: Getting to Knox

Parking: Campus Map. The parking lot is across the street from Old Main. There is also street parking near the building. Park in any spot marked Visitor. There are no restrictions and parking is free. All parking is within a 5 minute walk. There are accessible spots on the street and in the parking lot.

Lunch: Lunch will be included in this meeting since we are meeting over the course of a lunch hour. 

Registration: To register, please click on the "Register" tab above. The registration deadline is September 21. Lunch will be served during this session.

If you have any questions, please email CARLI Support.

As academic libraries face ongoing retirements and organizational restructuring, early career librarians are increasingly assuming supervisory or managerial responsibilities earlier in their careers. Yet questions remain about how prepared they feel for these roles and what kind of support contributes most to their confidence and effectiveness. This presentation reports the results of a national survey conducted in 2024 exploring early career academic librarians’ perceptions of their readiness for management. The survey gathered quantitative and qualitative data from over 70 respondents with fewer than ten years of professional experience across a range of academic library settings. Findings suggest that while many early career librarians find themselves in management positions, fewer feel adequately equipped to take them on.

This presentation will share key data themes on how library managers did and did not feel prepared, highlight respondent narratives, and discuss possible implications for library administrators, professional associations, and LIS programs. There will also be opportunities for participants to discuss their own management situations and brainstorm how to best support new incoming managers. Attendees will gain insight into how institutions can better support leadership development for early career professionals and foster more intentional management onboarding within academic libraries.

Presenters:

Cathy Austin is the Director for Collection Management & Strategy at Mississippi State University. She graduated with her MSIS from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2019.

Lauren Geiger is the Director of Digital Archives at Mississippi State University. She graduated with her MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019.

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