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Sabbatical Pod and Video Cast – Resources

(these references are incomplete)
Video Casts
Clayton Christiensen – Disruptive Innovation and The Way We Learning (“Disrupting Class. 2009) – WGBH Boston
Jim Collins – Charlie Rose – “Good to Great”
Columbia U – Scholarly Comm – Harvard Open Access Initiatives – Jim Neal (Columbia) / Stuart Scheiber (Harvard)
John Willinsky: The Quality of Open Scholarship: What Follows from Open? [...]

IIC 2009: Joyce Ogburn: Risk & Entrepreneurship in a Time of Uncertainty

Entrepreneurs

Find Partners – spreads risk
Build Teams
Use other areas of organizations – i.e. Business school for business plan.
Opportunity focused
Should be small, simple and practical.. one idea at a time

Drucker: Links Entrep and Innovations
———————Risk

Some may chastise Libraries for taking risk (risk adverse) .. Libs have been rewarded for being conservative
Risk Taking vs Risk Management – go for [...]

Some interesting resources that relate to our topic of ’strong libraries’

Some interesting resources that relate to our topic of ’strong libraries’
BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS
Active Leadership (Manage your future, inspire your staff)
Leslie Burger, “Transforming Leadership,” American Libraries, November 2006, pg. 3.
“The challenges faced in libraries today are changing at a rapid pace and require an agile workforce of problem-solvers, team-players, leaders, and articulate spokespeople.”
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Jim Collins, Good to Great, [...]

Starred Google Reader Posts

ACRL 2009 – Where Have All the Librarians Gone? The Academic Library Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Where Have All the Librarians Gone? The Academic Library Workforce of Today and Tomorrow
BAD . no info .. changed title to “…..” something different .. wouldnt have chosen
WILIS StudyGraying of workforceWhy people leftFollowup in Lib School Grad .. what are they doing?
Left Job to reasons:

Opportnities for growth
New Challenging projecrs
Salary
Location
Working Environment

ACRL 2009 – Digital Libraries Need Digital Organizations:Identifying, Defining and Creating New Academic Library Management Structures

Digital Libraries Need Digital Organizations:Identifying, Defining and Creating New Academic Library Management Structures
1966 – MARC1968-73 – Online Cat1971 – OCLC Union Cat – start collaboration in technology context1987 – Online Journals1991 – Web1996 – Google2001 – Wikipedia2005 – YouTube

ACRL 2009 – Playing on ”Practice Fields”: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries

Playing on ”Practice Fields”: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries
Labs – Think Tanks – Testbeds – Sandboxes
Environ. Scan:Strat. PlansOrg chartsPosition announcements
Most is R&D is tech/open source/digitization
Labs w/ user communityPortal sand gateways at GMU for grads/facU Minn. “Dig lib Dev. Lab”Zotero and Bamboo Read: James Neal re: R&D ImperativeKatherine Dice  – Library Trends [...]

ACRL 2009 – Managing Change, Diversity, and a Multi-Generational Workforce: Developing Effective Problem Solving and Leadership Skills

PreConference –
Managing Change, Diversity, and a Multi-Generational Workforce: Developing Effective Problem Solving and Leadership Skills
Best workshop ever…
3 Tests:

MBTI – Im an “ESNP”
KAI
KGI

ACRL 2009 – Workplace Information Literacy: Cultivation Strategies for Working Smarter in 21st Century Libraries

Workplace Information Literacy: Cultivation Strategies for Working Smarter in 21st Century LibrariesShoot Me Please!  Lets get out of our own way .. “Informed Learning”
Flowcharts – Methodology, relevant models, perceptions, accomodations, yields, worldview, framework of ideas, area of concern,  … Methodology description with no useful content,
informed learning, participatory action research, learning with and for beneficiaries, [...]

MBTI – thoughts

Allows people to be who they are, not what you want them to be

David Lewis Workshop:

David Lewis (dlewis@iupui.edu)
“Innovators Dillema”
see site .. “Public Lib of Science”
see
Price for Open Source Publication Fee  (ie: $2500 .. editorial board)
Beware of “corporate capture” …
Find Open Source Publishers / Fees .. I need samples
Publishers who only do – Print on demand – ebook only ??
CC – Noncommercial-Share-Alike 3.0
Disruptive Change:
Learn by doing
Save resources for 2nd or 3rd [...]

Scratch Sheet – Book Ideas

Scratch Sheet
Resources

Pop Business Books
Seminal Businesss Tomes
CC Blog Posts
“The Literature”
Pop Magazines
Ideas Collection

Topics/Chapters
“Social Life of Lib. Leadership: A Web 2.0 Reader”

Disruptive Innovation/Technology
Ideas/Trends

Leadership/Management in Change/Evolving Environments
Organizational Change
Culture Change (incl. High.Ed.)
Personal Productivity

Entrepreneurship
Future of Research Libraries
Content (everything is Misc) – Open Access
Personal Information Management

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Reading Lists – priority

Social Life of Info
Everything is Misc
Reframing Orgs
Getting Things Done
The One Minute Manager
“Entrepreneur” [...]

Chapter Approach – Popular Business Theories Applic. to Libraries

How about this?
Chapters Approach (Books + Mags + Blogs)
including:

The world is flat – Thomas L Friedman

The wisdom of crowds – James Surowiecki

Wikinomics -Don Tapscott; Anthony D Williams

Who moved my cheese? – Spencer Johnson

The tipping point – Malcolm Gladwell

Strengths based leadership -Tom Rath; Barry Conchie

The seven habits of highly effective people – Stephen R Covey

Planet Google [...]