Managing in the middle [[electronic resource] ] : the librarian's handbook / / edited by Robert Farrell and Kenneth Schlesinger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462369903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, Ill., : ALA Editions, c2013
• ISBN: 0-8389-9637-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Collana: ALA guides for the busy librarian
• Altri autori (Persone): FarrellRobert (Professor); SchlesingerKenneth
• Disciplina: 025.1
• Soggetti: Library administrators; Communication in library administration; Middle managers; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Middle Management 101; 1: It's a Job, Not a Reward!; 2: Stepping Right into the Middle of . . .; 3: Testing the Waters; 4: Learning the Ropes; 5: Is an MBA a Good Choice for Middle Management Librarians?; 6: Expertise, Influence, and Magical Thinking; 7: Business Books for the Library Middle Manager; 8: Rethinking Interpersonal Communication for Managers; 9: The Middle in the Middle; 10: Horizontal Communication; 11: Feeling Good in the Middle; 12: Top Communication Rules for Effective Library Management; Part II: THE MIDDLE GROUND; 13: Formal and InformalCommunication in Meetings14: The Power of Un; 15: Checklist for Productivity; 16: Procrastination and Willpower; 17: The Critical Path for Middle Managers; 18: Supervision; 19: Firm but Fair; 20: Performance Management; 21: Performance Improvement; 22: Consult Me First; 23: Managing Perceptions; 24: Surviving Layoffs; 25: The Poor Administrator and You; 26: Coping with Reorganization; Part III: EMPOWERMENT; 27: The Self-Determined Middle Manager; 28: Developing Leaders; 29: Being an Entrepreneurial Leader; 30: Managing Change; 31: The Need for Middle Managers; 32: Building Strong Middle Manager/Paralibrarian Relationships33: Moving Up the Ranks and Back Again; 34: Working with the Plateaued Employee; 35: Taking Risks and Letting Go, Creating and Coaching Teams; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Being a middle manager can be a difficult job, but the range of perspectives in this book offer strategies and tips to make it easier.

Houses, Secrets, and the Closet : Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James / Gero Bauer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910263846003321
• Autore: Bauer Gero <p>Gero Bauer, Universität Tübingen, Deutschland </p>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016
• ISBN: 9783839434680; 3839434688
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Lettre
• Disciplina: 420
• Soggetti: Literature; Gender; Queer; Masculinity; Homosexuality; Gothic Novel; Sensation Novel; Henry James; Literary Studies; British Studies; American Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction 9 Bluebeard's ; 'Closet:' Gothic Novels 45 The Contested Secret Room: Sensation Novels 101 Globalising the 'Closet:' Henry James 165 Coda 213 Works Cited 223
• Sommario/riassunto: »Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the ›closet‹ – the male homosexual secret – which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.