Archive for 'Administration/Leadership'
Is Lifelong Learning an Academic Library Core Value?
Articulating “core values” has been touted by many conference speakers as a magic bedrocky goodness that will shield us from all sorts of scary nasty change that is getting up and roiling all our stuff.
One problem is you have to figure out what your core values are.
My library is up [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on November 12th, 2008 under Administration/Leadership.
Comments: 16
Good Reasons For Those Bad Decisions
One of the most important responsibilities of any library leader is to make the right decisions. When our decisions have minor consequences the long-term impact of deciding poorly will likely be minor or non-existent. But decisions involving people’s positions, large-scale automation or significant resource allocations can have long-term and profound implications for our libraries and [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 7th, 2008 under Administration/Leadership, Conference Blogging.
Comments: 2
Core Values Must Come First
In the past few weeks I attend two equally thought provoking presentations. Although the content was radically different, as were the presenters, - one a library science professor and the other a business faculty member and corporate consultant - there was a common theme in each talk that resonated strongly with me. Both talks, in [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 18th, 2008 under Administration/Leadership.
Comments: 10
More To Bezos Than Books Or Kindles
If you’re about my age you may remember when Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of Time and Newsweek the very same week (Oct. 27, 1975). It was a pretty big deal. Outside of a president or other world political figure, simultaneous mutual admiration by multiple highly read national magazines is pretty rare. While history [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 26th, 2008 under Administration/Leadership, Innovation.
Comments: 1
Sorry But You Can’t Have It All
I recently gave a keynote talk at a meeting of a statewide library directors group. I called the talk “The Search for Tomorrow’s Library Leaders in A ‘Dissin’ the Director’ Landscape” and part of the talk referred back to some previous ACRLog posts on leadership and library directors. I mentioned some of the reasons that [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 24th, 2008 under Administration/Leadership, Professional Development.
Comments: 13