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Blogs
- Blogging by and for academic and research librarians
- Helping Academic Librarians "Keep Up" With News and Developments In Higher Education.
- The Wharton School [University of Pennsylvania] is committed to sharing its intellectual capital through Knowlege@Wharton, the school's online business journal.
- An ongoing conversation among librarians with differing perspectives (public, academic, school, consortial, youth) but one shared goal: ensuring the health and relevance of libraries.
- Issues concerning libraries and the law - with latitude to discuss any other interesting issues Note: Not legal advice - just a dangerous mix of thoughts and information. Brought to you by Mary Minow, J.D., A.M.L.S. [California, U.S.]
- Libraries, community, technology and PEZ
- On libraries, services and networks.
- Emerging technologies in libraries
- PALINET’s podcasts feature interviews with leaders in library technology
- Shifting libraries at the speed of byte!
- A Weblog by Michael Stephens
Books and related websites
- Welcome to Winning With Library Leadership, the one stop resource for library professionals wanting to enhance their personal and organizational leadership! We offer tools and workshops focused on leadership development, organizational change and innovation, human resources, compensation, assessment applications, electronic resource management and more!
Leadership training
- According to ARL's strategic goals for 2005-2009, there is a need to focus on new and expanding roles for ARL libraries to engage in the transformations affecting research and undergraduate and graduate education. ARL's Leadership Development initiatives assist research libraries to meet the instructional and research needs of higher education.
- A resource for library leadership training programs, showing program titles, schedules, frequency and contact information.
- The State Library and Archives of Florida has developed a statewide approach to leadership reflected in the five-year plan titled Florida Library Leadership Program: Developing a Statewide Approach 2004-2009. The program identifies strategies designed to assist the State Library and Archives of Florida in helping libraries to develop and maintain leadership skill levels in their organizations and to identify and assist individuals in developing and maintaining self leadership skill development. The Program's goals include a focus on succession planning, talent management, and leadership career development.
- Recognizing the need to develop library leaders for libraries of the future, a group of Maryland librarians, with the support of the Maryland State Department of Education Division of Library Development and Services (DLDS) held the first Maryland Library Leadership Institute in 1998... Thirty-two participants attended a 5 day seminar... The emphasis of the Institute is the development of individual leadership skills and the creation of a leadership network. Candidates were nominated by their library directors based on demonstrated interest in leadership and commitment to library services. Four institutes have been held since its inception and have been coordinated by the Maryland Library Association. Graduates from the Institute have gone on to various leadership positions in their library systems.
- MindLeaders is an employee and individual performance-improvement company with nearly 25 years of experience in the technology-based, self-paced training field. We provide personalized learning that supports organizational success. Our e-learning tools cover topics ranging from networking in an enterprise environment to personal use of the pc and from healthcare privacy issues to business skills.
- NELLS is an intensive 4-day course for "up and coming" library leaders. The purpose of this symposium is to foster the mentoring and development of leaders for library associations (state and regional). NELLS was created through a cooperative effort of the New England Library Association and all six New England state library associations.
- OPAL is a collaborative effort by libraries of all types to provide cooperative web-based programming and training for library users and library staff members. These live, online events are held in an online auditorium where participants can interact via voice-over-IP, text chatting, and synchronized browsing.
- The Summer Institute for Academic Library Leadership focuses on the higher education context in which libraries exist. The institute explores new roles for libraries that may emerge from that context to support the goals and priorities of the parent institution. Participants identify ways to position their libraries to be agents for change within their institutions, in order to strengthen support for the library’s services and resources. The institute is highly participative and tailored to the interests of those selected as summer fellows.
State libraries
- The Library Development Bureau provides consultant services and technical assistance to create, improve and strengthen library/ information and literacy services.
- The New York Library Association's Library Leadership and Management Academy is an educational program for emerging leaders in the library profession. Participants will gain the skills and knowledge they need to advance up the career ladder in library management.
Other sources
- The website of the American Library Association's Library Administration and Management Association. The mission of the Library Administration and Management Association is to encourage and nurture current and future library leaders, and to develop and promote outstanding leadership and management practices.
- This site is designed to provide basic information about Blended Librarianship, and to provide information about the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community. We invite you to explore this site and learn more about Blended Librarianship and our community.
- Notes and reading list on library leadership, from the October 2006 New Jersey Academy of Library Leadership
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development.
- Jenkins has been providing information to the Pennsylvania legal community for over 200 years. Our mission is to continue to make legal information easy to find and affordable
- If you're not keeping up, you're falling behind. The Keeping Up Web Site is designed to help library and information science professionals, information technologists, instructional technologists, and other academic technology support professionals develop and maintain a program of self-guided professional development.
- This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That's what we're trying to do.
- The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. This site has no affiliation with any library automation company. Whether you are in the process of selecting a library automation system, or just want to keep up with developments in the field, Library Technology Guides is the place to start.
- Maintained as part of the Iowa Library Service Areas website, this page offers links for library management as well as Iowa-specific links.
- The website of the Medical Library Association's Leadership and Management Section
- You are here.
- WebJunction is a cooperative of library staff sharing and using online resources that enable us to identify and embrace appropriate technologies and apply them to our daily work. To sustain this effort, we partner with library and cultural heritage organizations and those that support them in meeting their objectives through effective use of collaborative, web-based technologies.
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