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Director's Thoughts #7
Today, yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that and the weeks leading up to this point were spent getting our system ready to migrate to the cloud. And not just my library, but our whole consortium, so you can imagine the amount of work that goes…
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Director's Thoughts #6
While many people had a long weekend, ALL my staff was at work on Monday for a staff training day. We have, what I would consider a medium-sized library with almost 50 people on staff (most of whom are part-time or very part-time). We haven’t had any sort of large…
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Expert In the Field – ?!?!
I had the coolest experience yesterday, I got the chance to Skype with a graduate leadership class about my leadership experience! Now, if you follow my blog, you know that I’ve been in my current position for a grand total of five months, so although my experience is limited that’s…
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Director's Thoughts #5
As I’ve mentioned in the past, we’re spending this year working on a 3-year strategic plan for our library. We’re starting from the ground up with a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis, PEST (Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological) analysis and identifying our stakeholders. This project is being done not only…
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"A Place for the Vulnerable"
I’ve had plenty of people ask me how I became a librarian (which you can read about here), but no one ever really asks why I became a librarian. I love books and this seemed like a great career to get into if you love books. But as an introvert, it…
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Director's Thoughts 12/7/16
I’ve been a library director for a total of almost 4 months! There are days when I can tell you I have no idea what I’ve done, but I’m constantly busy and for the most part loving my new role. Our previous director, (I’ve been working for this library for…
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Director’s Thoughts 10/19/16
Where do I even begin? This past month has flown by and I finally have fewer meetings and more time to actually start working on plans for next year. Coming from a children’s librarian position, we would plan a few months out for upcoming programs and as the days would…
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Director’s Thoughts #2
Meetings As I’m getting more comfortable with my new position, I have come to learn one very important thing – meetings. I have literally never been in so many meetings in my life. If my day doesn’t consist of at least three meetings, I don’t know what to do with myself!…
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Director’s Thoughts #1
Yesterday, I spent a few hours trying to get my office organized… my previous director had been in the position for 37 years let me repeat that – 37 years! So needless to say, the office could use a little refreshing and some spring late summer cleaning. Thankfully our building…
