Building a Learning and Mentoring Community

The Next Generation AULs ProjectAngelo, Garnets, Henry, & Kautzman

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Origins

• Economic downturn. Severe budget cuts. Furloughs required of all.

• Cuts had already been made over multiple years.

• Major changes in technologies and in the field of library science.

• Desire to have different conversations than occur within daily work.

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Purpose

• Help ourselves and each other lead change strategically.

• Personal and professional development.

• Strengthen the UC Library through generating new ideas and approaches collaboratively.

• Rest, renew, and reinvigorate.

• Contribute to the sustainability of UC.

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Design

• Susan Parker, Ph.D., Deputy UL, UCLA asked 8 AULs to participate. She led the effort over a 1.5 year period.

• A+G designed, led, and offered consultation over that period of time.

• Three retreats were custom designed to meet the AULs needs and interests at each juncture.

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Design: Session One

• Get to know each other better.

• Talk about present challenges and possible future strategy in ways currently not available in UC meetings.

• Explore the possibility of creating a shared agenda for leadership and collaboration – to work on together over the next year.

• Expand one’s knowledge and skills in leading change.

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Design: Session Two

• Deepen understanding of one’s own and each other’s strengths as leaders.

• Explore elements of influence skills. Apply this learning to one’s own library and the UC system as a whole.

• Further explore creating a shared leadership project aimed at advancing constructive change across the UC system.

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Design: Session Three

• Develop skills and capacity to enact change as an AUL to address a present challenge facing one’s own library or the UC system as a whole.

• Explore tactical approaches/plans for implementing the change in one’s own library or in the UC system as a whole.

• Support each other in resolving pressing issues and creating new approaches.

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The AULs Experience

• Why we took part

• What we have gained

• How our libraries have benefited

• What we recommend to you

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For You to Consider

• Are you drawn to deepening the conversations you and your colleagues have with each other?

• Would you like to increase your individual and shared ability to meet current and anticipated challenges?

• Would it benefit you all to step outside your daily work to do this?

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Consider…

• Do you want to help each other re-charge your batteries?

• Do you feel urgency about your library’s current situation?

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