The Servant-Leader in the Library: A Case Study and a Journey Towards Self-Transcendence
Jonathan Potter
International Journal of Servant-Leadership 2017 DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.101 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Case study Case report Peer reviewed |
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| Population | Evelyn Bentley, a library dean at a small Catholic liberal arts institution (pseudonym St. Aloysius University) |
| Key findings | The text introduces a personal case study of servant leadership centered on a library dean, Evelyn Bentley, at a small Catholic liberal arts institution, and describes how the author came to meet her in November 2000 after leaving a public library job and taking a four-month road trip. No findings or conclusions are presented in this abstract. |
Abstract
What follows is a personal case study in servantleadership. For the sake of confidentiality and clarity, I will employ pseudonyms both for my subject (the library dean at a small but growing Catholic institution of liberal arts) and for the school itself. I first met the subject of this study, whom I will refer to as Evelyn Bentley, late in November of the year 2000, not long after she had assumed the role of Interim Dean of Library Services at the institution I will call St. Aloysius University. In April of the same year, I had given up my job managing a mid-sized branch of a public library system and embarked with my wife on a four-month road trip, freespiritedly crisscrossing the country and culminating in our arrival in a new city where my wife had enrolled in a graduate program.