Emily Weak, founder of Hiring Librarians, has started a series profiling coaches who offer services/support to library workers – and I’m featured this month! Read the brief interview, which shares how I decided to begin coaching, my coaching philosophy/approach and services, and things to think about if you’re considering hiring a coach. If you’re seeking […]
Recorded: Hiring Librarians Coaching Profile (July 2024) Read More »
Thomas’ dissertation offers focus on academic library leaders’ mental health during the early months of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Focusing on lived experiences via phenomenological methods, Thomas explores historic issues of library leadership and contextualizes these traditional stressors – and ongoing/additional mental health challenges – through the lens of leading and supporting impacted library workers
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Congratulations to the Conference on Academic Library Management Forum Grant team, whose grant to gather library workers focused on professional development and continuing education for person-centered leaders, was awarded by the Institute of Library and Museum Services! I’ve been invited with a cohort to a two-day meeting in San Diego, where our goal is to
Reserved: Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM) Forum (July 2024) Read More »
The University of Illinois Chicago Library has invited me to co-facilitate their 2024 Summer staff retreat this month. I’ll be collaborating with colleagues about library culture, critical hope, and values/mission future-thinking during the day-long event. Learn more about UIC Library – the largest academic library in the Windy City, currently under the leadership of University
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I’ve been selected to serve as the 2024-2025 Follett Chair within Dominican University’s School of Information Studies. This unique opportunity to collaborate with and learn from colleagues and students is a wonderful alignment with my mission, research, service, and scholarship interests and goals. …[A]s Follett Chair, I can offer my insight on the contemporary realities