Katherine Skinner
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Nick Krabbenhoeft
ALA, Public Program Office – Mary Davis Fournier, Mary Hirsch
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) – Mary Ellen Davis, Kathryn Deiss
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) – Mark Puente
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) – Shera Clark, Karen Dyer, David Horth
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) – Cal Shepard
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) – Joan Lippincott
Council of State Archivists (CoSA) – Anne Ackerson
Dartmouth College – David Seaman
Illinois State Library ILEAD U – Anne Craig, Joe Natale
National Library of Medicine (NLM/AAHSL) – Carol Jenkins
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) – Chrystie Hill
Public Library Association (PLA) – Barb Macikas, Deborah Robertson
University of North Texas (UNT) – Martin Halbert
Virginia Tech Libraries – Tyler Walters
Katherine Skinner
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Nick Krabbenhoeft
ALA, Public Program Office – Mary Davis Fournier, Mary Hirsch
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) – Mary Ellen Davis, Kathryn Deiss
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) – Mark Puente
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) – Shera Clark, Karen Dyer, David Horth
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) – Cal Shepard
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) – Joan Lippincott
Council of State Archivists (CoSA) – Anne Ackerson
Dartmouth College – David Seaman
Illinois State Library ILEAD U – Anne Craig, Joe Natale
National Library of Medicine (NLM/AAHSL) – Carol Jenkins
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) – Chrystie Hill
Public Library Association (PLA) – Barb Macikas, Deborah Robertson
University of North Texas (UNT) – Martin Halbert
Virginia Tech Libraries – Tyler Walters
Empowering leadership development in museums, archives, and libraries to strengthen the futures of these institutions and the communities they cultivate and serve.
There have been many efforts over the last two decades to train library leaders through workshops, seminars, institutes, and fellows programs. The outcomes of these training efforts have varied. Studies conducted by CLIR and InfoPeople show that while some of these efforts may be working, they do not yet meet the breadth and depth of the demand within the field. Also, there has been little consistency to date in curriculum development and evaluation practices across these leadership-training programs.
While individual training programs have often documented their work through white papers and articles, there is a relative lack of comparison-based documentation regarding the breadth and depth of this existing spectrum of leadership-training activities, especially across library sectors (academic, public, government, private, archival). Nexus addresses the need for documentation of existing practices, cross-germination across leadership training groups, and the creation of a strong, extensible foundation to train and evaluate boundary-spanning leaders for the 21st century library field.
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Providing the foundation for the Training the 21st Century Library Leader white paper, this dataset documents a spectrum of leadership development offerings that served academic, public, special, and archival libraries between 1998 and 2013.
The data codebook and two .tsv data files are made available within this .zip download:
Providing the foundation for the Training the 21st Century Library Leader white paper, this dataset documents a spectrum of leadership development offerings that served academic, public, special, and archival libraries between 1998 and 2013.
The data codebook and two .tsv data files are made available within this .zip download:
Training the 21st Century Library Leader provides an analysis of library leadership training in the U.S. context. It documents the models and features, geographic locations, sectors and audiences, funding and costs, founders and hosts, and evaluation methodologies deployed by more than seventy library leadership training programs during the last 15 years.
Training the 21st Century Library Leader is the first deliverable of the Nexus Project, a planning project funded by the IMLS to evaluate the current state of library leadership programs and recommend cross-sector synergies and opportunities.
Accompanying this white paper is a dataset created by the project team that documents the spectrum of offerings that have served four major library communities—academic, public, special, and archival—between 1998 and 2013.
Based on focus groups conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership, the Leadership Development Impact Assessment establishes the core challenges faced by leaders in academic, archival, public, and special library sectors.
The Impact Assessment also outlines the leadership competencies that are needed to respond to these challenges:
In June 2014, the Nexus project assembled stakeholders in library leadership programs, including library leaders, leadership program consultants, and professional organizations to discuss the necessary steps to catalyze library leadership development.
The resulting Recommendations for Actions set forth an ambitious agenda to build a shared leadership development roadmap, shared curriculum and evaluation modules, and a network of leadership trainers to coordinate action.
Built on the work of the Recommendations for Action, the 21st Century Library Leadership Logic Model and Library Leadership Roadmap establish the benefits of coordinated action to enrich library leadership training.
The Logic Model describes the current state of leadership in libraries and the need for stronger leaders. The Roadmap charts the high-level needs for librarians as they advance through their career to be supervisors, team leader, associate directors, and finally senior administrators and incorporates skill sets necessary across all levels of leadership as discovered by the Leadership Development Impact Assessment.
