In response to a post from management guru Alison Green’s discussion, I shared several strategies for managing emails in “Part I: Did you get my email?” of this series. From my experience, people tend to follow up with me when I take time for the things I need to think about or information I don’t […]
Part I: Did You Get My Email?
I find this question: “Did you get my email?” baffling. It’s now 2019, and for as long as I’ve been a professional, email has been something I count on working correctly unless our IT staff tells us there’s a glitch. By that I mean, if you click “send” and my email address is in the […]
Great by Choice
I finished reading Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten Hanson. I’d read the pair’s previous books in this series drawing from a similar body of research, which include: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t and Built to Last: Successful […]
Self-management
I subscribe to the Library Leadership Podcast hosted by Adriane Herrick Juarez and a recent episode included a conversation with Doug Cane who shared many tips for what I refer to as self-management. I believe the term he used was workflow management. It’s next to impossible to be an effective and efficient leader of others […]
Creating a Vision
After reading Cheryl Norton’s If you want to lead, start with a vision in Inside Higher Ed about why leaders need to create a vision, I started thinking about the vision that I wrote for Special Collections last fall. I wrote the text by myself, and shared it with my colleagues. I didn’t ask for […]
S.508 Leadership across libraries, archives, and museums
Yesterday’s session on leadership was inspiring. With panelists sharing their experiences working on NEXUS LAB to develop leadership compentencies and a training series. The goals of the program, which includes establishing leadership competencies through a common framework across LAMs, evaluation of learning, and offering curriculum resources to foster development. This work is in part based […]
S.402 Recipes from culinary collections: creative (and tasty!) approaches to outreach
A great session before lunchtime, this panel explored outreach using culinary collections. Key take-aways included: 1. Creating research guides for culinary (other other themed collection) offers great opportunities for independent projects taken on by grad students and other researchers, e.g. Digital or physical exhibits, blog entries, recipe swap, etc 2. Connecting collections to campus events, […]
S.305 Art of collection development for web archiving
This session was a great way to begin my Friday of SAA. Each of the presenters focused their presentations on these issues related to web archiving: 1. Collection development strategies 2. Impact of strategies and policies/guidelines on practice 3. Collaborative collection development 4. Social media collecting 5. Access and copyright considerations Kate Stratton of the […]