Challenge for Library Management

Wyoma vanDuinkerken is the coordinator of cataloging record support and an associate professor at Texas A&M University Libraries. She has also held roles at Texas A&M as the interim head of cataloging staff, coordinator of monographs acquisitions, reference librarian for Islamic studies, and project leader for the implementation of virtual reference. Prior to her arrival in Texas, she managed documentation and support and customer service response for a library software company in Canada and worked with the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, managing an extensive project portfolio.||Pixey Anne Mosley is the head of collection support services and a professor at Texas A&M University Libraries and has recently served as the interim director of the university s Academic Integrity Office. She has published extensively on management in libraries with articles in Library Leadership & Management and Reference & User Services Quarterly and has authored two previous books, Staying Successful as a Middle Manager and Transitioning from Librarian to Middle Manager. She is currently the co-associate editor for Library Leadership & Management, the official journal of the Library Leadership and Management Association. She previously served as the coordinator of instructional services and head of access services at Texas A&M and as the information technology librarian at the University of North Texas. Prior to her career in librarianship, she was an aerospace engineer in the corporate sector, working for Boeing and Allied-Signal