LIBRARY LEADERS - ATTRIBUTES COMPARED TO CORPORATE-LEADERS

A STUDY INVOLVING SIXTY-ONE library leaders from academic, public, and school libraries, deans and national association executives is described. The interviews sought to compare characteristics of library leaders with those of corporate leaders as identified by Bennis and Nanus (1985). The four attributes identified in the corporate study were also characteristic of library leaders, but the librarians added the "societial value" of their work as a key motivating factor.