Human resources are an important and strategic part of a library organization, especially as staffing needs and competencies change. Strategic Human Resources Planning for Academic Libraries focuses on the impact of human resource practices in a library setting and discusses several of these aspects. This includes the role of human resources when the library is part of a larger organization, for example a university with a centralized human resources department, along with identifying strategic objectives that are expected and related to workforce issues. This book also reviews the hiring practices, reorganizations of staff, use of temps or time-limited positions, and how students, volunteers and internships can make a strategic difference overall. Chapters address competencies across different levels of employment within different library types and consider how those competencies are changing. Chapters also include examples from the author's experiences with this type of human resources activities, and conclude with an overview of how leadership and library leaders must utilize human resources as a valuable tool for developing a strong and healthy organization. addresses human resource tools, such as job tasks analysis and creating equitable payroll structures demonstrate the use and benefit of multiple employee statuses that provide flexibility and resourcefulness to the end users discusses alternative hiring practices for example, the make-up of a search committee reviews trends and changes to current staffing models for libraries and expectations for future hiring practices provides guidelines and suggestions for library administrators with regard to developing and embracing human resource best practices.