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Nexus Lab: Layers of Leadership across Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Diagram with six columns about the key qualities needed to lead different groups.
April 15, 2017

Leading Across Boundaries: Bridging Professions for System-Wide Change

The Nexus LAB project assembled a broad range of leadership program facilitators and participants to develop resources to meet the diversity of leadership training needs across archives, libraries, and museums. The project aims to build a community for the experts providing museums, archives, and libraries leadership training. Together, project partners significantly increased trainer capacity through … Continue reading Leading Across Boundaries: Bridging Professions for System-Wide Change

Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs, 2016 Edition. Compendium of 2015-2016 Mapping the Landscapes Project Findings and Data.
January 18, 2017

Educopia Study Finds Library, Archives, and Museum Employees Asking for Professional Development

ATLANTA – January 18, 2017 – Today, Educopia released its Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs 2016 Edition report revealing a strong shared desire for continuing education and professional development across these cultural fields. Sixty-nine percent of library, archives and museum (LAM) professionals surveyed indicated having a “high-level” of interest in continuing education and professional … Continue reading Educopia Study Finds Library, Archives, and Museum Employees Asking for Professional Development

LAM Education Needs Assessments: Bridging the Gaps
November 6, 2015

Publication Announcement: LAM Education Needs Assessments: Bridging the Gaps

Authored by Christina Drummond, Tom Clareson, Laurie Gemmill Arp, and Katherine Skinner, LAM Education Needs Assessments: Bridging the Gaps aims to introduce guiding principles and practices for CE/PD needs assessments from beyond the Library, Archives, and Museum (LAM) spheres of reference. A literature review section highlights needs assessment research from other fields (e.g., higher education, nonprofit … Continue reading Publication Announcement: LAM Education Needs Assessments: Bridging the Gaps

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May 9, 2022

Homeward Bound

Many community initiatives we work with at Educopia are initially funded and administered as university-hosted, grant-funded efforts, i.e. “sponsored” projects. Early in such projects, when scholars and university staff are testing new ideas and approaches using external funding sources, university hosting and “sponsorship” provides efficient and effective administrative management and support. But as a collaborative … Continue reading Homeward Bound

Multi-colored wall with text that readsCommunity Cultivation Field Guide and Resource Library.
March 29, 2021

Community Cultivation Resource Library

Community Cultivation — A Field Guide Issued by Educopia Institute in November 2018, Community Cultivation — A Field Guide provides a powerful lens that can provide both emerging and established communities with ways to understand, evaluate, and plan their own growth, change, and maturation. The Field Guide is designed for use by directors, managers, facilitators, … Continue reading Community Cultivation Resource Library

Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage. Building an international data trust to improve the measurement and analysis of Open Access (OA) books. Logos for University of Michigan Library, Educopia Institute, Book Industry Study Group, University of North Texas
February 20, 2020

Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage

This two-year project acted upon the recommendations documented within the “Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage” white paper published by the Book Industry Study Group in 2019.  The international project team and its advisors developed and tested open infrastructure, policy and governance models to support a diverse, global data trust for usage data on open access … Continue reading Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage

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December 19, 2018

The Maintainers (subcontract)

Many groups and individuals today celebrate “innovation.” The notion is influential not only in engineering and business, but also in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For example, “innovation” has become a staple of analysis in popular histories – such as Walter Isaacson’s recent book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks … Continue reading The Maintainers (subcontract)

Community Cultivation: A Field Guide
November 3, 2018

Community Cultivation — A Field Guide

Issued by Educopia Institute in November 2018, Community Cultivation — A Field Guide provides a powerful lens that can provide both emerging and established communities with ways to understand, evaluate, and plan their own growth, change, and maturation. The Field Guide is designed for use by directors, managers, facilitators, governance bodies, officers, and staff members. … Continue reading Community Cultivation — A Field Guide

September 5, 2018

Nexus LAB: Curriculum

Enter Curriculum About the Curriculum The Nexus LAB team, in partnership with Toolkit Consulting, issued this fully adaptable and customizable set of seven leadership-focused curriculum modules in 2017. These modules are freely available for trainers and workshop leaders to adopt, adapt, and use when delivering leadership development and training offerings. This curriculum development was made … Continue reading Nexus LAB: Curriculum

Nexus Lab: Layers of Leadership across Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Diagram with six columns about the key qualities needed to lead different groups.
October 15, 2017

Nexus LAB: Layers of Leadership

The “Layers of Leadership,” developed in partnership by Educopia Institute, the Center for Creative Leadership, and more than 35 museum, library, and archives associations and representatives, provides a common lens for understanding high-demand leadership training skills and competencies in these fields. The “Layers of Leadership” documents the key challenge, key leadership tasks, skills necessary to … Continue reading Nexus LAB: Layers of Leadership

Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs, 2016 Edition. Compendium of 2015-2016 Mapping the Landscapes Project Findings and Data.
December 27, 2016

Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs 2016 Edition

Triangulating the need for, supply of, and demand of continuing education and professional development offerings is a challenging feat. Yet, professional associations, higher and continuing education programs, and others all find value in this information when planning, developing, and scheduling offerings. Effective, efficient organizations meet their missions through individuals who wield robust skill-sets around organizational … Continue reading Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs 2016 Edition

Nexus Lab: Layers of Leadership across Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Diagram with six columns about the key qualities needed to lead different groups.
December 8, 2016

Layers of Leadership for Archives, Libraries and Museums

Discussions and findings will inform future leadership development programming, including recommendations for PLA Leadership Academy, and will ultimately provide opportunities to assist members in leadership development that is effective and sustainable across their entire career span.

Cultivating and Sustaining Cross-Sector Collaborative Networks
November 8, 2016

Cultivating and Sustaining Cross-Sector Collaborative Networks

This presentation by the Educopia team discusses some of the lessons learned in Educopia’s first decade of work building and sustaining cross-sector collaborative networks.

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November 8, 2016

Distillation: Developing Diverse Communities

In this session, facilitators of successful cross-sector communities and initiatives (e.g., the Library Publishing Coalition, the BitCurator Consortium, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the Nexus LAM Leadership Training Network) will discuss “lessons learned” in building and sustaining these cross-sector collaborative networks.

October 6, 2016

Catalyzing Communities Through Stronger Leadership

IMLS Senior Advisor Dr. Marvin D. Carr summarized earlier this month, “today’s museums, libraries, and archives are more than community anchor institutions that generate economic and societal community benefits; they build and lead change in their neighborhoods.” Yet, how do we, the people within these organizations, make this change happen? Let me explain how. Since 2014, I … Continue reading Catalyzing Communities Through Stronger Leadership

Strengthening Leadership Development Across Archives, Libraries, and Museums
August 5, 2016

Strengthening Leadership Development Across Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Archives, library, and museum organizations continually invest in leadership skills development to prepare future leaders. Until now, common frameworks have not existed to help instructors and learners recognize translatable leadership competencies or resources across the fields. Utilizing the “Levels of Leadership” frameworks developed by the Nexus LAB projects, the panelists engage the audience in considering … Continue reading Strengthening Leadership Development Across Archives, Libraries, and Museums

July 7, 2016

Mapping the Landscapes Storyboard Data Visualization Users Guide (TrueBearing)

Data visualization dashboards extend the potential insight for users far beyond that of static graphics. This brief guide identifies the basic toolset with which a user can “drill down,” asking questions and discovering important underlying patterns in the data. Acknowledgements This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums
July 6, 2016

National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums

This National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development across Libraries, Archives, and Museums provides a broad planning and evaluation framework for the systemic strengthening of continuing education and professional development (CE/PD) across the landscape of funders, professional associations, program administrators, and trainers involved. This document synthesizes three years of planning efforts convened by the … Continue reading National Agenda for Continuing Education and Professional Development Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums

June 7, 2016

Nexus LAB Information Session

An informational webinar introducing the Nexus Leading Across Boundaries effort and its pilot opportunities for leadership development instructors and trainers around evaluation and curricular resources.

Repositories & Preservation Workgroup
April 6, 2016

Report from the Repositories & Preservation Workgroup

Repositories are a vital tool in modern information management and a key component of preser­vation and long-term availability. They are not well-suited, however, to the current chal­lenges posed by our information-rich society and the multitude of stakeholders involved in the modern scholarly publishing system. Strengthening repositories and standardizing preserva­tion processes are critically important. This challenge … Continue reading Report from the Repositories & Preservation Workgroup