How do you view your new librarian? Would you have more faith in a librarian who is older but a recent graduate, or a younger librarian with a few years behind her?
Bridging the gap between the different generations of librarians is a difficult issue to tackle. No matter whom you ask, the finger [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Management’
February 27, 2009
Qualities of Successful Managers
The Palinet Leadership Network recently posted a new article, Qualities of Successful Managers. Part of the article consists of one of my earlier blog posts, Talking about Management to New Library Professionals. The remainder of the article features additional bloggers and their posts, discussing management and leadership.
This is a timely article, given that graduation is [...]
January 5, 2009
Talking about management to new professionals
Several weeks ago I was invited to speak to the management class at Dalhousie University’s School of Information Management (SIM). This was my first speaking engagement as a professional librarian and I was honoured to be asked.
Although eager to speak to a group of new professionals about management, I wondered what advice and anecdotes I [...]
