Organizational management
Leading the management of your organization involves many moving parts and people. From the development of your library's mission and vision, to strategy implementation and daily operations, leading your library team and serving as an organizational leader in your community requires ongoing improvement and innovation.
Self-paced courses and webinar recordings on this topic are freely available in the WebJunction Course Catalog.
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Most Recently Added
June 18, Data storytelling 101
Publish Date: News / 18 June 2024
This webinar will provide an orientation to data storytelling that centers cultural humility while leveraging storytelling dynamics.
April 30, Leadership strategies for building connection and diffusing difficult situations
Publish Date: News / 30 April 2024
This webinar introduces skills and practical strategies for developing empathetic, curiosity-led leadership, to help improve communication, connection and cooperation at your library.
April 16, Navigating the library director hiring process: A guide for trustees and boards
Publish Date: News / 16 April 2024
This presentation offers crucial steps for hiring a library director, empowering your board to secure visionary leadership and avoid pitfalls.
Co-Creating Library Services for Transformative Impact
Publish Date: Webinar / 27 February 2024
Learn about the fundamentals of co-design and explore how to apply them in your library for wildly creative and deeply impactful programs and services.
Align library services with community aspirations
Publish Date: News / 27 February 2024
The most successful library services are often those that help the community meet its aspirations while also honoring the unique purpose of the library. But balancing the community’s goals and the library’s scope is not always an easy task.
Easy as ABCD: Using asset-based community development as a lens for authentic relationship-building
Publish Date: News / 7 February 2024
Building relationships with systematically excluded communities is one of the most important things your library can do to support relevant, meaningful services. Co-creation can help librarians embody our EDISJ (equity, diversity, inclusion, and soci...
Building Authentic Relationships with Underserved Communities
Publish Date: Webinar / 30 January 2024
Learn how to develop a plan for identifying, reaching, and building relationships with underserved communities.
Stronger Together: Collective Impact and Climate Action
Publish Date: News / 9 January 2024
Climate change is the grandest challenge of our generation. This requires a level of collaboration that has not been seen before.
Stronger Together: Collective Impact and Climate Action Programming
Publish Date: Webinar / 13 December 2023
This webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative features libraries having a collective impact on climate action through community collaborations.
Programs that Walk the Talk
Publish Date: News / 12 December 2023
Throughout this Climate Action series, we have discussed strategies and practical steps libraries can take toward sustainability, as well as resources to support these efforts. The Sustainable Libraries Initiative can help support a balanced approach...
Community engagement
Where do you go for inspiration? Invigorate your community engagement efforts with advice from library leaders.