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It argues that clearer collaboration, shared direction, and coordinated leadership are essential for productivity and outcome quality. The article discusses enabling variables that help leaders build an integrated staff team, reduce inhibitors, promote enablers, and create a supportive workplace where staff work toward common goals.","The Dual Nature of Staffing in the Education Library: Management Issues and Solutions  \nBy Dr. Justina O. Osa  \nPennsylvania State University  \nAbstract  \nThe dual nature of staffing in the education library, just as in most academic libraries, often constitutes a major source of management problems. The blurring and shifting of tasks for professionals and paraprofessionals, and budgetary constraints do not help the situation. Professionalsand paraprofessionals must work in concert and in harmony, pulling in the same direction. This article identifies and discusses some enabling variables that can help the education library leader build a well-integrated staff team of professionals and paraprofessionals who work towards a common goal in a supportive workplace environment.  \nIntroduction  \nEducation libraries, like other academic libraries, are staffed by both professionals and paraprofessionals. This dual nature of staffing often constitutes a major source of management problems. The labels-- professional and paraprofessional -- assigned to distinguish these two groups of employees have not helped to ease the tension, animosity, and distrust that sometimes exist among members of both groups.  \nThis tension has increased as the roles of professionals and paraprofessionals have become quite complicated and less distinctive as they used to be. “Over the past twenty or more years, automation of library processes, declining budgets, contraction of higher education generally, and entry into the electronic information age have changed libraries. New library tasks have been created and others realigned.”1 Tasks once seen as exclusively professional are now been shared with, or assigned to, paraprofessionals, and there is a growing emphasis on paraprofessionals as managers, especially of day-to-day operations.“In library literature the term ‘routine’ is frequently used to differentiate between the work done by librarians and paraprofessionals. This distinction seems inappropriate to the jobs held by a growing number of paraprofessionals whose responsibilities require sophisticated judgment calls, supervision, and complex operations.”2 Furthermore, many paraprofessionals come into positions with significant academic credentials and experience; some paraprofessionals in the education library have  \nacademic degrees in education and have even been classroom teachers in an earlier career. Even though there are still some tasks that require professional knowledge and skills, some paraprofessionals might believe that there is no difference in what they and the professionals do. Such practices can lead to hard feelings on the part of the paraprofessionals,  \nThe performance of any organization or unit is judged by the level of productivity and by the quality of the outcome. For the education library to become and remain a high performing unit the professionals and the paraprofessionals must “work in concert and in harmony. They need to be harnessed and pulling in the same direction, not in different ones.”3 The importance of building an effective, strong, and well-integrated staff team cannot be overrated. In the article “The Basics of Team Building” a team is defined as “a group of people working towards a common goal. Team building is the process of enabling that group of people to reach their goal. It is therefore a management issue…”4 Consequently, the leader in the education library becomes a very crucial factor in uniting professionals and paraprofessionals into a cohesive, goal focused, and happy team. He/she has to devisea plan to influence, motivate, and lead all staff and get them to work together well. There are certain variables which if well managed under the direction and leadership of the head of the education library could remove inhibitors and promote enablers in coalescing professionalsand paraprofessionals into an effective team, even in this time of change. 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