Description:Leadership and management skills are important to librarians at all levels. It may feel impossible to develop these skills if you are not the “boss,” but this class will show how leadership is possible at all levels. Several theories will be presented, and applications of these theories will be discussed.
Learning ObjectivesBy the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Identify leadership opportunities in their current position, based on French and Raven’s 5 Bases of Power
- Apply Kouzes and Posner’s 5 Practices of Exemplary Leadership to their own career
- Understand aspects of their own personality that affect their leadership/management style
About the Instructors:Janna Lawrence, MLIS, AHIP, FMLA has been the director of Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa since November 2019. Most of her 34-year career as a health sciences librarian has focused on instruction and reference services.
Linné Girouard, MLIS, AHIP, FMLA has been a hospital librarian at Houston Methodist, an eight-hospital system, for 36 years.
Janna and Linné both received their MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin.
