The Machiavellian librarian: winning allies, combating budget cuts, and influencing stakeholders

1. Introduction

Pt 1 Character and behavior for princes 2. One Machiavellian librarian's path toward leadership

3. Weasels and honey badgers: networking for librarians

4. Influence without authority: making fierce allies

5. Prince or plebe?: success at all levels of the library hierarchy

6. Princely planning in a political environment

7. Be an ironman at work: work with your strengths

Pt 2 New principalities 8. Mixed monarchies: expandind the library's sphere of influence to help student-athletes

9. "To mold a new reality": strategies for leading change (and getting away with it)

10. Infiltrating the curriculum

11. Visualizing library space for constituents: a 3D representation of space changes in the Christopher Center Library at Valparaiso University

12. A game of loans: promoting interlibrary loans

13. Certificate: going rogue with non-library certifications

14. Ambition, innovation, and tenacity

Pt 3 Types of armies 15. Communicating with the "prince" to win the war

16. Absens haeres non erit: being in the right place at the right time

17. Taming the bureaucratic beast or: how we learned to stop stressing and take control of accreditation

18. An army of one: the one in which the strength of school libraries ought to be measured

19. Breaking the mold: winning allies via self-discovery

20. A Machiavellian metaphor for communication: using the Social Style Model to craft organizational messages

21. Rather a prince than a magistrate be: a regional librarian's dilemma

Pt 4 Political situation 22. Know yourself and your patron: process mapping and needs assessment

23. The accidental Machiavellian: strategic alignment between the university library and the teaching center

24. Slybrarianship: building alliances through user engagement and outreach

25. Leveraging acceditation to quell the two fears

26. Political positioning.