Jolie Graybill, Assistant Professor, University
Libraries, has published a new article on a study that explores possible leadership perceptions of
Millennials working in academic libraries that includes definition, attributes,
and whether they perceive themselves as leaders. The article, entitled, “Millennials among the Professional Workforce in Academic
Libraries: Their Perspective on Leadership,” was published in the
January, 2014 issue of the Journal of
Academic Librarianship.
Graybill surveyed Millennials (born 1982 or
after) currently working full-time in Big Ten libraries in 2011-12 and found the
leadership attributes which Millennials indicated as most important were group/teamwork, communication, respect,
vision, and influence. The study results may encourage current administrators of
academic libraries to prepare and plan professional development programming
that includes these aspects of leadership for future leadership opportunities
that will most likely be filled by Millennials. This may mean that supervisors
as a result, need to redesign positions to take advantage of the teamwork
interests and skills while also providing Millennials with more support on the
other leadership attributes that they might not be as skilled in.
The
article can be viewed in the UNL Libraries Digital Commons here: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/310/
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