Tag: Skills
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Managing Innovation – Catharina Isberg
This is an extended text based on one of the presentations of the innovation webinar organized by the IFLA Management & Marketing Section in February 2023, “Managing Innovation: No Innovator is an Island”. Full recording from the webinar is available on YouTube. About the author: Catharina Isberg is working as Director of the Lund Public…
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M&M 25th Anniversary Podcast – featuring Dr. Christie Koontz,
New! IFLA Management & Marketing 25th Anniversary Podcast The Management & Marketing (M&M) 25th Anniversary Working Group is excited to release its first interview, featuring an interview with Dr. Christie Koontz, an early member of the section. Dr. Koontz, a longtime IFLA member, is a legendary figure in the library marketing world. She teaches marketing…
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Coaching and mentoring – Ulrike Lang, Almuth Gastinger
This blog post is part of a series of posts from the ninth Knowledge Café, held during the 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Dublin, Ireland, July 26-29, 2022. The session was co-sponsored by the Knowledge Management Section and the Continuous Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and was co-chaired by Monica Ertel…
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Developing Library Leaders of the Future – Barbara Schultz-Jones, Kendra Albright
This blog post is part of a series of posts from the ninth Knowledge Café, held during the 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Dublin, Ireland, July 26-29, 2022. The session was co-sponsored by the Knowledge Management Section and the Continuous Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and was co-chaired by Monica Ertel…
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Training and professional development – Joan Weeks, Anya Feltreuter
This blog post is part of a series of posts from the ninth Knowledge Café, held during the 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Dublin, Ireland, July 26-29, 2022. The session was co-sponsored by the Knowledge Management Section and the Continuous Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and was co-chaired by Monica Ertel…
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Dealing with the ‘infodemic’ -Ellie Valentine, Karin Finer
This blog post is part of a series of posts from the ninth Knowledge Café, held during the 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Dublin, Ireland, July 26-29, 2022. The session was co-sponsored by the Knowledge Management Section and the Continuous Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and was co-chaired by Monica Ertel…
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Toxic and dysfunctional workplace
As part of the CPDWL Podcast Project there is a new conversation published featuring IFLA Knowledge Management Section Chair Spencer Acadia and Fran Holyoke. Both talk about how libraries can be toxic and strategies in managing difficult workplaces. The podcast can be found at: https://anchor.fm/ifla-cpdwl/episodes/S3E5-Spencer-Acadia-and-Fran-Holyoke-e1pd26k This Podcast episode was done with support from the M&M…
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Management during a City Expo and an innovative journey – Example from Helsingborg Sweden
How do you manage during a 35 day long city fair which is the result of a 3 year long innovation journey? And what skills do you need to have in order to manage this? From May 30 till July 3 there sure was a buzz in the city of Helsingborg, Sweden. During these 35…
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Library Managers Around the World – Ezio Neyra
This is a summary of the interview with Mr. Ezio Neyra, Chair of the Department of Literature at the Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile, and former institutional head of the National Library of Peru (2020-2021). In February 2022, the IFLA Management & Marketing Section organized a webinar “Oh, The Places You’ll Go: Library Managers around the World”. The webinar…
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Library Managers Around the World – Andrew Ojulong
This is a summary of the interview with Mr. Andrew Ojulong, University Librarian, Lira University in Uganda. In February 2022, the IFLA Management & Marketing Section organized a webinar “Oh, The Places You’ll Go: Library Managers around the World”. The webinar shared interviews with library managers from around the world. Each interview was focused around four…
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