Conspiratorial Thinking in Academic Libraries: Implications for Change Management and Leadership
In Brief Some level of belief in conspiracy theories among United States citizens is quite common. Academic libraries have seen significant change over the past... Read More
Leading from the Center: Reimagining Feedback Conversations at an Academic Library
In Brief What if we brought the same compassion and learner mindset that we use with students to our interactions with colleagues? Inspired by change... Read More
Preparing Early Career Librarians for Leadership and Management: A Feminist Critique
In Brief This article explores the opportunities and challenges that early career librarians face when advancing their careers, desired qualities for leaders or managers of... Read More
Nothing Tweetable: A Conversation or How to “Librarian” at the End of Times
In Brief In 2015, Joshua Finnell (JF) was appointed data librarian at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Shortly thereafter, in 2016, Lareese Hall (LH) was appointed... Read More
“Someday when I am incompetent…”: Reflections on the Peter Principle, Leadership, and Emotional Intelligence
by Kim Leeder A few years ago I learned of the “Peter Principle”: the concept that in hierarchical organizations, whether public or private, individuals are... Read More
Zen and the Art of Constructive Criticism
By Erin Dorney Introduction If there were a single piece of advice I have for new professionals entering the field of librarianship, it would be to... Read More
Leading with Heart
by Eric Frierson Introduction There are sections of the bookstore many people don’t want to be seen in. For me, it’s the business section. Every... Read More
Vision and Visionaries: A Whole Bunch of Questions to Start off 2010 (As if you didn’t have enough of those already)
by Kim Leeder During the last few frenzied weeks of the academic semester last month I came across an article I reviewed quickly and put... Read More
Sense of self: Embracing your teacher identity
Welcome to another guest post at ItLwtLP. This time we bring you thoughts from Carrie Donovan, an instruction librarian at Indiana University Bloomington. Enjoy! By Carrie... Read More