FIRST CAREER, SECOND CAREER, AND ALTERNATIVE CAREER ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS: A STUDY IN PERSONALITY AND LEADERSHIP DIFFERENTIALS AS RELATED TO MANAGERIAL TALENT

• Other Authors: MOORE, MAY MAULDIN.
• Format: Others
• Subjects: Library Science
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/lib/digcoll/etd/3084889

A comparative study of personality and leadership characteristics as related to managerial talent using three groups of academic librarians: those who chose librarianship as a first career, those who chose it after first having worked in another field in which they had taken graduate training, and those who chose it as an alternative career when they decided not to work or were unable to find work in their original field of graduate training. The group was also considered on personality and leadership characteristics in breakdowns by sex, degree of supervisory responsibility, and age. Comparisons of scores on the tests used were also made with normative groups and with librarians who had been studied some twenty years ago in two works, one by Perry Morrison and one by Robert Douglass. === Findings were that there were no differences among first, second, and alternative career academic librarians on personality and leadership characteristics as related to managerial talent, but there were differences when the groups were broken down by degree of supervisory responsibility and by age. Too, librarians of today seemed closer to the norm on general personality characteristics than was the case with the librarians reported on by Douglass. They generally tended to score lower than the normative groups on managerial talent, though their scores were higher than the scores made by the academic librarians studied by Morrison some years ago. It would appear that academic librarians, no matter by what route they come to the field, tend to fit a certain personality profile and that, when it comes to managerial talent, they are generally not as able as people in other occupations. === Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-01, Section: A, page: 0007. === Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.