Ever since I attended the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians last summer, I've been watching for interesting posts on academic library leadership, or just academic leadership in general. This is some of what I've found.
Let me know in the comments what else I should be reading.
- Gordon Ramsay's Library Nightmares
- On talking crazy, taking initiative, and having a comprehensive vision
- The Faculty-Staff Divide
- Two Years at Cupcake U: Reflections
- What Were They Thinking?
- Ask the Administrator: Professional Development for a New Dean
- Wait for It... Wait for It...
- Consensus Decision-Making and its Possibilities in Libraries
- Why I don't want to be a library director anymore
- A thing at which I cannot fail
I may do a post at some point gathering together information on the Harvard Library reorganization, which is certainly related, so please feel free to add posts about that in the comments.
More like this
Via a mailing list, the Top 1000 Books in the US, ranked in order of library holdings. The Top 25 (after the cut):
As is occasionally my habit when a big story breaks, I have gathered together all the relevant documents I could find concerning the recent controversy about the Canadian Conservative government's recent consolidation of the libraries at their Department of Fisheries & Oceans.
7 Things Librarians Are Tired of Hearing
Library without books debuts at Florida’s newest college
Thanks to Mark Spicer for bringing this item to my attention. Note that the site I'm linking to sells printer cartridges, but still has some cool content.
Very good reading - Gordon Ramsay's Library Nightmares
The context and the three themes used in chef Ramsey's television show:
1. Unlearning dysfunction
2. Embracing passion
3. Committing to change
and then showing how it can be applied to librarianship. Great story.
Milli is right. Those are some very good reading.