| This qualitative research emphasis is on libraries at major universities and how they operate as separate and independent units within the university and yet function as part of the university community. While libraries serve as essential, supportive resources for learning, they have their own challenges, organizational features, objectives, opportunities, and functions. Library leadership is a distinct and integral part of the campus environment. Leadership styles help determines the effectiveness of the libraries in accomplishing their objectives and their mission statement. Leadership styles also determine in part how leaders transform values into actions, and realities, and how these organizations address internal and external challenges and change. Leadership style is an important factor in determining the performance, effectiveness, and productivity of the organization and its staff. Leaders choose one or more styles to lead based in part on the situation at the time. There is no single leadership style that may be considered as the right one. Leadership styles are reflected in behaviors and attitudes. It is up to the individual to determine which style is appropriate at the time. |
