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Article

Abstract

Very few students who have taken Wayne State University's required management course from me have any interest in library careers in management. Some are even more firm in their decision after taking the course though most graduates will have management responsibilities in their first library position and some will manage a small library. I polled current students and recent graduates about this reluctance. The sixteen responses considered the following possible causes: personality traits, a preference for traditional library activities, a dislike of managerial responsibilities, prior management experience, and salary. Additional, more systematic research is needed to test this hypothesis.

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Library and Information Science

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Library Administration on July 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01930826.2015.1047283

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