LITA Leadership Guide

The LITA Leadership Guide will help librarians at every level of the career ladder and will supplement leadership and skill-based training workshops. Library leadership teams interested in the development of their staff as a means of improving their organizational performance will find it to provide context for growth, training, and collaboration.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Leadership
1 What it means to be a leader in academic libraries in the 21st century
Bradford Lee Eden
2 From a Transactional to Relational Model: Redefining Public Services via a Roving Pilot Program at the Georgia Tech Library
Emy Nelson Decker, Marlee Givens and Bruce Henson
3 Leading Changes in Library as an Architect of Technology Infrastructure
Hong Ma
Part 2: Entrepreneurship
4 The Entrepreneurial Spirit Lives in Librarians
Mary G. Scanlon & Michael A. Crumpton
5 The End of the World as We've Known It: Disruptive Innovation in an Academic Library
Rebecca Bichel and C. Heather Scalf
6 Creating Spaces for Innovation in the Workplace
Michael Rodriguez
Part 3: Technology
7 The Promise and Perils of Open-Source
Junior Tidal
8 Early Adoption, Early Abandonment: Parallel Problems in Promoting New Technology
Caitlin A. Bagley
9 A Model to Align Technology with Strategy and Structure in Academic Libraries
Harish Maringanti