Monthly Archives: January 2012
21st Century Library Strategic Management
In my Strategic Planning series of posts in the fall of 2010, I stated that the Strategic Plan was essential to the survival of a 21st Century Library. That series was fairly comprehensive in addressing the Strategic Planning model that … Continue reading
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Changes in Our Librarian Education for the 21st Century – Revisited
In my original Post Changes in Our Librarian Education for the 21st Century in May, 2010, I wrote the following. Unfortunately, much of the MLS theory gets lost in the face of reality dealing with customers and daily issues. The … Continue reading
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Librarian or Radical Social Activist?
Last weekend began ALA’s Midwinter conference. Obviously, librarians (and others associated with the profession) got together to discuss the old and new topics of the profession – mostly old. But LIBRARYJOURNAL Online posted this on Saturday – ALA Midwinter 2012: … Continue reading
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2011 Blog in Review
The WordPress.com stats folks prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert … Continue reading
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Two Years of Blogging
Today marks the beginning of year three of my blogging adventure. The past two years have been an adventurous, bewildering, challenging, discouraging, encouraging, enlightening, exciting, exasperating, frustrating, and satisfying experience (don’t worry I wasn’t planning an alphabetical listing of emotions). … Continue reading
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The Excellent Library Leader…
… charges, she doesn’t just walk. She leans in to talk to people to show she really wants to hear them, and she listens with her whole body when someone is talking to her. Her face is always open and … Continue reading
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Why Not a Bachelor in Library Science? – Revisited
“Why isn’t that a good idea? Seems as though it is a very good idea in some librarians’ minds – at least those in Connecticut, Kentucky and Maine.” – and NORTH CAROLINA. The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s … Continue reading
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Leader Development
OK, let’s agree that the librarianship profession does not attract lots of leader type people. What should we do about that? DUH! We should develop leaders from among those librarians who have an aptitude for it, express an interest in … Continue reading
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Leaders! ?
What do you think of when you read the word leaders? Odds are librarians is not the first image that comes to mind. The stereotypical image of librarian is still most often the somewhat graying woman saying “shush”, as much … Continue reading
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Strategy for 21st Century Library Excellence
Since all libraries and leaders are different, there is no formula for creating an excellent library. However, developing a strategy and plan for achieving excellence is the most important plan you’ll ever create. The six steps discussed below will help … Continue reading
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