“You need to become an expert on many
subjects, not just taxonomies …you should
know enough to be dangerous.”
CONCLUSION
Resilient libraries are run by resilient librarians – professionals who can bounce back from
unexpected and uncontrollable events that impact libraries and librarianship today and
not simply recover from, but triumph over challenges – even creating positive change.
They
are:
• Visionary – with the ability to imagine expanded relevance and influence
• Innovative – using classic skills in new ways and finding new tools
• Strategic – tying content, products and services to organizational business needs
and objectives
• Proactive – creating opportunities for the library to contribute and participate
• Networked – with connectivity to company leadership, other departments,
professional peers
Our SLA 2015 panelists are all change agents who make change work for their departments
and for themselves as they stay focused on the above principles.
Two of our speakers
have had promotions during the past year, and one of them has demonstrably turned
around a tenuous situation as the new leader of her department.
A resilient librarian is a change manager. Accepting the new, the different, the exciting,
the inconvenient - even the stressful - and developing a strategy for managing it can be
extremely empowering. As our speakers have shown, leaders who successfully manage
change both reassure and inspire their teams – and individual contributors who navigate
change build a professional confidence that allows them to thrive. When you imagine
and plan the best future for special libraries, think “change agency,” and resilience rather
than resistance"
Lucidea White Paper (2015)
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