dc.contributor.author	Daniels, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned	2025-03-27T13:42:08Z
dc.date.available	2025-03-27T13:42:08Z
dc.date.issued	2024-11-08
dc.identifier.other	e0796427-1b55-459b-a3c2-20b7bb741cb2	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/7386
dc.description.abstract	Many Library and Information Science program students state that they are not interested in management positions. Many would prefer to focus on a subject specialty or technical services. When students are interested in management, there is no clear course of study. To understand what motivated some librarians to choose to become managers, and what motivates them to keep being managers, I used a narrative inquiry approach to collect the experiences and stories of librarians who are currently managers at academic libraries in the southeastern United States. The research question I used as a framework for my study was: What experiences motivate academic librarians to become managers?Six librarians participated in my study. The participants were purposefully selected because they were current managers below the rank of dean at an academic library in the southeastern United States. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview process designed to gather experiences that could be shaped into a narrative that conveyed each participant's stories in a meaningful way to the teller and the reader. The analysis of the data resulted in four themes: (1) parental influence, (2) management/leadership, (3) management education, professional development, and (4) managerial motivation. These findings have implications for current and future managers, those tasked with educating managers, and those who need to hire and support managers at academic libraries.	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Library administration	en_US
dc.subject	Library science	en_US
dc.subject	Academic libraries--Administration	en_US
dc.subject	Motivation (Psychology)	en_US
dc.subject	Narrative inquiry (Research method)	en_US
dc.subject	Educational leadership	en_US
dc.title	Experiences that Motivated Academic Librarians to Choose Management: A Narrative Inquiry Approach	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology of the Dewar College of Education and Human Services	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Workman, Jamie
dc.description.committee	Alemanne, Nicole
dc.description.committee	Most, Linda
dc.description.degree	Ed.D.	en_US
dc.description.major	Curriculum, Leadership & Technology	en_US