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crl-15536	McElrath, Eileen	Challenges That Academic Library Directors Are Experiencing as Perceived by Them and Their Supervisors	2002-07-01	18	.pdf	application/pdf	9498	413	54	If the director ’s po- sition itself lacks stability, then there is a great potential for the entire staff to respond negatively and for the organization’s services to suffer.13 Donald E. Riggs and Gordon A. Sabine’s 1988 study of twenty-five library leaders (academic library directors were included, but not exclusively) provided insight into their self-identified leader- ship characteristics, how they would sug- gest a newcomer become a leader, and what leadership attributes they predict would be needed in 1998. Academic library directors added forty- eight additional job-related challenges whereas the chief academic officers added twenty-four.	cache/crl-15536.pdf	txt/crl-15536.txt