innovative august, 2007 in school libraries management leadership
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Innovative
August, 2007
in school libraries
managementleadership
• the technical skills of an electronics engineer
• the organisational skills of a principal
• the discipline skills of a sergeant
• the pedagogical skills of a teacher
The Millennial Librarian
• the pastoral skills of a counselor
• want to talk
• want silence
• want to recreate
Facilities to serve those who:
• want to research
• want to work in groups
• want to work alone
• want to use print media
• want to use electronic media Dr. Tim Hawkes, Kings School
A manager maximises the output of an organisation
through administrative implementation.
Management controls or directs people/resources
according to principals or values that have already
been established.
“Management has no power. Management has only responsibility.” Peter Drucker
“Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential” Warren Bennis
“Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do to achieve what they want to achieve.” Tom Landry
“Leadership is performance. You have to be conscious of your behaviour, because everyone else is.”
Carly Fiorina, CEO, Hewlett
Packard
Attributes of a Leader:
• Vision
• Confidence, determination and persistence
• Passion and self sacrifice
• Image building
• Role modeling
• External representation
• Expectation of and confidence in followers
• Selective motive-arousal
• Frame alignment
• Inspirational communication
(per House and Podsakoff)
• Proactive • Reactive
• Embrace change • Threatened
• Value add • Mind kids and books
• Student centred • Book centred
• Flexible • Inflexible
• Leadership • Support
• Outward • Inward
• Forward thinking • Past focused
• Hi Tech • Low Tech
• School • Library
• Optimist • Pessimist
• Curriculum focus • Collection focus
“The poorest person isn’t the one without a cent – it’s theone without a dream”
Anon
“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“To be at the forefront of new thinking concerning the provision of library services where excellence is fostered in order to add value to the curriculum”
Aquinas Resource Centre
• Analysis
• Setting strategic direction
• Planning Strategies
Strategic Plan
• Review and evaluation
“Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.”
The World Bank
Empowerment• Managing up
“While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past”
Vince Lombardi • Align vision
• Celebrate
• Market
• Network
• Present professionally
• Look at what others value
• Support to Leadership
“Ask forgiveness rather than approval” • Change management“You don’t know what you can get away with until you try” Colin Powell
“We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
Anon
“There is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different” Anne Bruce
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
Charles Darwin
“ The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”
Alvin Toffler
“Some people grin and bear it. Others smile and change it.”
Unknown
Change Management
• Continuous
• Structures set up to support change
• Comfort level
• Flexibility
• Ability to meet any situation that arises
“It is a fact that people rise or fall to the level of your expectations and projections. Use projection strategies to motivate your problem people to change themselves.” Rick Brinkman
Your best asset is your staff
Your best asset is GOOD staff
“You give me the right people, and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people, and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.”
Colin Powell
Distributed Leadership
• Everyone is a leader
“It is surprising how much you can accomplish, if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
Abraham Lincoln
• Members of team part of leadership practice
• Breaks down traditional, hierarchical structures
• Value and reward performance“The pecking order is strictly for the birds”
Anon
Develop and nurture leadership capacity by:
• Learning to let go
“None of us is as smart as all of us” Pogo
• Demonstrating trust
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them.” Booker T. Washington
• Praising initiative
“Be aware of their weaknesses, but talk to their strengths.” Danny Cox
• Encouraging innovation
• Encouraging professional conversation and debate
• Developing positive relationships
Key to success: Sharing information
Key to failure: Using information as power
“We work in a school, not a library”
• A conversation with other libraries
• Circulation of professional journals
• Attendance at Association conferences, activities
• Attendance at school based PD, including IT and
curriculum
• Attendance at all school meetings, initiatives
Professional Development
Toolkit• Management training
• Gather management Tools
• Television
• Self Help Books
• Look for Best Practice and model it
• Deliver solutions alongside problems
• Know your management style
• Make it someone else’s problem
• IT
Let it be known
We, the unwillingLed by the unknowingAre doing the impossibleFor the ungratefulWe have done so much for so long with so littleWe are now qualified to do anything.
Mother Teresa
Janet Blackwell
Director, Information Services
Aquinas College Great Ryrie St
Ringwood, Vic 3134 Australia
(03) 9259 3014