[Publib] assistant directors

[Mary Soucie]

Ann,
By middle management, I mean essentially department heads, which we'd never had before. Some of the AD duties shifted to the managers and a few to the Admin. Assistant. For instance, the Adult Services Manager does the scheduling for the reference department, the Circ Manager does the scheduling for the Circ Department, which includes the pages. My new AA does the actual ordering of supplies but the AD still oversees the process. 
 
When I started at WPLD, we had a full time bookkeeper. We didn't have the need for a FT person in that position though. That position was redesigned into the position of Administrative Assistant and also planned adult programs, something this person had already been doing. When she passed away, we never refilled that position. We outsourced bookkeeping and someone else took over adult programs. About 2 1/2 years ago we went through a job classification and salary study. The AA position was recreated again, this time as a PT position. We only filled it about 4 months ago. Some of the AD duties shifted again at that time to the AA.

Hope this helps,
Mary
 
 
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From: Ann Perrigo [mailto:annatapl at gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 10/7/2008 6:23 AM
To: Mary Soucie
Cc: Henriksen, Phalbe; publib at webjunction.org; Nikeda Webb
Subject: Re: [Publib] assistant directors


<<we implemented middle managers for the first time and about 6
months ago replaced our administrative assistant.>>

Mary--Could you expand on this a bit?  What do you mean by middle managers, and did you replace your aa with another one, or move his/her workload to someone else?

Our library has just officially become a District (laws in Mich and IL must be similar) and we are considering adding an aa to ease my workload and allow me to do more collection development, program planning, etc.

Years ago here the Reference Librarian was traditionally Assistant Director and second in responsibility, in charge when director was out of the building, etc.  Now there is nobody officially designated--I just expect the staff to act like a team, and do what needs to be done when I'm gone!  Most of the time this works just fine!

Ann


On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Mary Soucie <mjsoucie at wilmingtonlibrary.org> wrote:


	Hi Phalbe,
	I have a staff of 15 bodies, 7.5 FTE. We've had an Assistant Director
	for about 6 years now. My AD is also the YS Manager. She is in charge of
	the building whenever I'm out as well as a variety of other duties. Two
	years ago, we implemented middle managers for the first time and about 6
	months ago replaced our administrative assistant. Since then, my AD's
	job has changed some. She was able to hand off scheduling to each
	department for instance. She still oversees the ordering of supplies,
	but doesn't have to actually do the ordering anymore.
	
	Before we had the middle managers, her job was much more extensive. It
	was important at that time also for me to have someone to bounce ideas
	off of, hand the keys to, etc.
	
	Our population is officially just over 9200. We are a district library,
	which in IL means we are a taxing body and governed by a 7 member board
	that is elected by the public. There are a number of libraries similar
	in size to me that also have AD's. Some of them have a split job, such
	as mine. Others are straight AD's though. In a couple of cases, the AD
	was hired for succession planning.
	
	Hope this helps,
	Mary
	
	
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