Call for Book Proposals: Leadership and Management for Health Sciences Librarians
The MLA Books Panel is seeking author(s) or editor(s) for a monograph that provides guidance to health sciences librarians interested in the field of leadership and management. The monograph could include, but is not limited to, the following topics:
* Trends in leadership in health science libraries, including leading multiple branches at once
* Leading with diversity, equity and inclusion
* Leading and valuing all library employees, including non-librarian staff
* Differences between leadership and management
* Leading from where you stand
* Becoming an accidental manager
* Reasons to take on a leadership role
* Mentorship – seeking a mentor/being a mentor
* Dealing with difficult situations with staff
* Reflective practice and management/leadership
* Change management
* Communicating value
* Important skills for leadership/management e.g., time management, project management, decision making, emotional intelligence
* Finding a path to leadership
* Preparing for accreditation – of the healthcare facility, the medical school, or of other health sciences educational programs
* Special challenges faced by hospital librarians, including leading units outside the library
Please consider the list above as a jumping-off point rather than a prescriptive list. You may write the book by yourself (or with other co-authors), or edit it and seek contributions from other authors. We describe the submission process at Publish a Book with MLA. To begin, submit your completed step 1 to Martha Lara (lara@mail.mlahq.org) at MLA by March 23, 2021. If you have questions about serving as the editor or the author of the entire volume, please contact e.watson@usask.ca. We cannot consider contributions of individual chapters at this time.
Do you have an idea for a book on a topic other than leadership? The Books Panel welcomes proposals on any topic likely to be of interest to health sciences librarians; simply fill in the step 1 formand submit it to lara@mail.mlahq.org. More information on the publication process is available at Publish a Book with MLA.