I just returned from a great program that used concepts from Reframing Academic Leadership by Lee Bolman and Joan Gallos to encourage the analysis of complex organizational situations using multiple perspectives or "frames": Structural - … [Continue reading]
Managing Research Data – from Goals to Reality
The recording is finally available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsxJthKsMnw&feature=youtu.be 1. I like the Q&A 2. I like "targeting early-career researchers" 3. Be aware of (or familiarize yourself with) http://schema.datacite.org/ … [Continue reading]
CRL webinar on Text/Data Mining, Libraries, and Online Publishers
The majority of DSOT'ers attended this event in July: http://www.crl.edu/events/9347 Direct YouTube play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1xymY9ePg (Ann Okerson made some real good remarks on librarian involvement @1:08-1:15 or so) Think of … [Continue reading]
The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails (Forbes Blog)
I stumbled across this Forbes Blog earlier this morning and thought it somewhat provocative in its contrasting of leadership training to leadership development. The author argues, "Training is something leaders dread and will try and avoid, whereas … [Continue reading]
The ‘X Model’ of Employee Engagement
Check out the short video on "The 'X Model' of Engagement" shown today at the UCI Staff Engagement Town Hall Meeting. Enjoy! UCI Staff Engagement Town Hall Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Bren Hall 6011 The Council of UC … [Continue reading]
Frivolous First Year Epiphanies
Last week I celebrated my first year anniversary with the UCI Libraries. Because I could write a thesis on all of the important things I have learned in that span, and because posting a wordy thesis is frowned upon for a blog, I decided instead to … [Continue reading]
Archives Leadership Institute: takeaways
From June 16 - 23, I had the privilege of attending the Archives Leadership Institute, a selective, weeklong immersion program in Decorah, Iowa for emerging archival leaders to learn and develop theories, skills, and knowledge for effective … [Continue reading]
Reference research presented at ALA 2013 (RUSA RSS Forum)
The RUSA RSS Forum was excellent this year. The first presentation (Andrew Walsh and Angela Pashia) analyzed students' use of LibGuides with the plan to improve the layout of their LibGuides. By using Google Analytics they could see how students used … [Continue reading]
Help Crowdsource a Library Project Management Toolkit!
In my quest for new and interesting project management literature, especially in the LAM realm, I stumbled upon this "toolkit" in the form of a Google doc: Library Project Management Toolkit Started by Jennifer Vinopal of NYU, this toolkit is … [Continue reading]
4 (or 13) Things about Discovery and Research Library Transformation
If you feel like driving your vision into a galaxy far far far ... away this morning ... From OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Management Interest Group (July 3) - Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC Vice Present and Chief Strategist) and Judi Nadler … [Continue reading]
Notes from Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference San Diego | June 9-11, 2013
I had the opportunity to attend and present at the latest SLA conference in San Diego. Some of the sessions I attended were more interactive than others so my notes are more complete for the ones that were primarily lecture/slide based, though I … [Continue reading]