1. Joan Giesecke, the former dean of libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, posed the following questions: “Managing professionals can present a true dilemma for today’s managers.

How do you manage, in the traditional sense, professionals or other managers who expect to have the authority and freedom to do their jobs? They are trained as experts in their fields. Why would they want you to manage them? Why would you think you could or should manage them?”45 What are some of the challenges faced by today’s library managers?

How can managers rise to the challenge posed by Giesecke?