REALM Update (five simple rules for managing uncertainty)
Imagine that we asked you to invent a new kind of library for a new society that lives online. The task is too vague for a team to build and…
Defining Metrics for Library Services
Librarians can provide effective and efficient ways of delivering services to their users by understanding their role. Aaron Cohen Associates, LTD has developed organizational staff plans that allow leadership to…
Leadership in Times of Change
What makes an innovation successful? As our library project experience suggests, all disruptive changes require leadership that is adaptive and well prepared for the future. According to Ronald Heifetz, Center…
Trusting Team Planning (build the courage to lead)
“Courage is a prerequisite for all leadership,” Brené Brown says. And it can be taught. It’s made up of four skills: being vulnerable is the most important, followed by sticking…
Blasting Off into the Knowledge Management Environment
Learning environments can be analyzed as a complex entity comprising many different factors. We have developed many types of library programs and know that some interactions are more important than…
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New Library Trees to the Cloud
The evolution of digital media has enhanced global perspectives in all facets of business, increasing the range, scope, and accessibility of libraries. Due to the tremendously impact-full influence of Covid,…
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Digital Burrito
It is crucial to find ways to protect learning outcomes during the current pandemic. Going forward, we need to build a library system that combines all of the best practices…
Learning Environment Design: Digital Library Community
Regardless of the type of learner, gaming is likely to become a common online learning strategy for many schools. For libraries, it is a necessity that the nature and scope…
Learning Pods: Library User Needs
Value the Present. After hundreds of years of educational space planning, we are now increasingly transformed by online education and the collaboration environment. The library as well as educational institutions…
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Communities of Practice Support Online Learning
The greatest misconception about instructional technology is the idea that online learning or remote learning is a finite game. It is an infinite game, which we call Lifelong Learning. Because education…
