Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries

New and Noteworthy - "That's How We Do Things Here": Organizational Culture in Libraries

“…Another excellent reading involving academic libraries is the recently published collection of essays Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries edited by Kelly Blessinger and Paul L. Hrycai. 5 The book is meant to help define what cultural factors go into making a great academic library, and how those factors manifest themselves in daily work from a librarian's perspective. As the authors state, "this volume was compiled to review current workplace cultures in academic libraries and way to improve those cultures…contributions to this collection primarly discuss successful current programs pertaining to workplace cultures in academic libraries and place the discussion in a scholarly context, particularly by considering similar programs and/or the history of the topic as reviewed in the library literature" (1).…”