Find out more about how to successfully lead your library through tough times in this edition of “What’s New @ WJIL.”  Explore the WJIL Guide to Organizational Leadership Resources,  learn what competencies are needed to be a leader in times of change and fill your knowledge gaps with free online leadership courses from the WJIL Course Catalog,.

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Resources

Organizational Management – Guide to Organizational Leadership Resources

• Mission and vision, strategies and decisions, team change management are all a part of leadership. Strengthen your skills in  these areas by exploring the resources in this Guide.
• Path: [Library Management » Organizational Management]

Leadership Competencies

• Scan this list of competencies excerpted from the Competency Index for the Library Field, then go to the WJIL Catalog, click on the Competencies tab and explore the online learning that can help you meet these competencies.

Technology Vision Statements

• Does your library have a vision for what technology should do for your library? Vision statements are a great way to describe where the library wants to be and what it values when choosing new technology.
• Path: [Library Management » Organizational Management]

The Continuous Improvement Approach

• Sara Laughlin and Ray W. Wilson chapter apply the principles of Edward Deming’s continuous improvement process to libraries in this chapter from The Quality Library (2008, ALA Editions).
• Path: [Library Management » Organizational Management]

Getting on Your Community’s Leadership Team

• This excerpt from “The Library Board Strategic Guide: Going to the Next Level” explains why a library should be part of its community’s leadership and planning team — and how to get started in that direction.
• Path: [Library Management » Community Relations]

Courses and Learning

Accidental Leadership with George Needham

• If you missed this May 5 webinar you can still view the full archive and take advantage of the resources to find out more about how to find the internal and external resources you need to lead.

Leadership Eseentials Series

Take advantage of this extensive series of online courses on leadership covering the following topics:

• Motivating Employees
• Communicating Vision
• Building Your Influence as  Leader
• Leading with Emotional Intelligence
• Leading Innovation
• Leading Change
• Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan

Change Management and Leadership (LE@D)

• Change is a given in 21st century libraries: intrusive, exhilarating, and growing in strength and frequency. Being an effective change agent and coping with change partly depends on your sense of perspective. We cannot promise that this course will either turn back the clock or guarantee that everyone in your library will unquestioningly accept change. However, there are benefits from studying other people’s experiences and some of the effective principles and practices of change management.

Leadership for Libraries: Becoming an Everyday Leader (LE@D)

• Library leadership used to be defined mostly by age, experience, credentials, seniority and tenure, job position or other traditional models of status with the library tribe. Today, leadership skills are required at every level to ensure libraries can respond effectively to the new worlds we live in. The changes won’t wait for a model of top-down responses. We need different models of leadership: Everybody needs to be able to think and act like a leader.

All courses listed above are free to eligible and registered users of WJIL. 

Community

Library Leadership and Management Association

• A division of ALA, the mission of the Library Leadership and Management Association is to encourage and nurture current and future library leaders, and to develop and promote outstanding leadership and management practices. Explore the resources of this organization to find out how the Library community at large is developing leaders.

What Could I do with…the Library Leadership Competencies?

Excerpted from the Competency Index for the Library Field, you can use this list of Library Leadership Competencies  to identify your strenghts and weaknesses as a leader. Then go to the WJIL Catalog, click on the Competencies tab and explore the free online learning under the Library Management/Organizational Leadership area that can help you fill your knowledge gaps in this area.