Table of Contents
Introduction: Why the Research on Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership?
Chapter 1. What Is Leadership? What Is Toxic Leadership?
1.2 The Study of Leadership in Library and Information Studies (LIS)
1.3 Leadership in Academic Libraries
1.5 Identifying Toxic Leadership in the Literature
1.6 Toxic Leadership in Academic Libraries
Chapter 2. How to Acknowledge Toxic Leadership’s Presence
2.1 The Effects of Toxic Leadership
2.2 Effects on Academic Librarians
2.4 When is it not Toxic Leadership?
Chapter 3. What to Do About Toxic Leadership?
3.1 What to Do About the Situation at Your Library?
3.2 Documenting Incidents of Toxic Behavior
3.3 Building a Support Network
3.4 Who to Talk to About What Is Happening?
3.5 The Consequences of Inaction
3.7 Who Benefits From Inaction?
Chapter 4. Regaining Control of the Library
4.1 The Toxic Leader Has Been Removed, Now What?
4.2 Mechanisms to Counter Toxic Leadership
4.3 The Need for Academic Libraries to Practice Self-Examination
4.4 Professional Library Associations Lack “People Training”
4.5 Maintaining a Nontoxic Leader Library
4.6 The Role Human Resources Should Be Playing
4.7 The Role of the Academic Institution’s Upper Administration
Chapter 5. Healing for the Organization Free of Toxic Leaders
5.1 Healing the Academic Library Free of Toxic Leaders
5.2 Healing for Academic Librarians
5.3 Minimizing Residual Toxicity in the Academic Library
A.2 Leadership and Toxic Leadership Items