Leadership training, mentoring and other resources
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Leadership training, mentoring and other resources
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PALINET and other resources for leadership learning.
Library leadership institutes and training
Mentoring resources
Professional development programs
Current library leadership events
Consulting - PALINET consulting services
Books and related websites
- Publications - PALINET and other publications
- Winning with Library Leadership
- 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!
Other resources
- ACRL OnPoint - a monthly live chat series on issues of the day in academic librarianship.
- ALA Emerging Leaders Wiki
- Emerging Leaders began in 2007 as one of ALA Immediate Past President Leslie Burger’s six initiatives. The Emerging Leaders program enables newer librarians from across the country to participate in problem-solving workgroups; network with peers; gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It puts them on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership.
- 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.
- A page on the Infopeople wiki.
- 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.
- A key article by Florence Mason and Louella Wetherbee, originally in the Summer 2004 Library Trends.
- 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.
- IHRIM - a membership resource - Some of you may find this international human resources association worth investigating.
Leadership blogs
- Library leadership blogs - a Bloglines list of blogs by library directors who frequently raise leadership and management issues, and a few other liblogs that frequently raise leadership and management issues. Suggestions for other blogs welcomed: use the Talk page.

