Primed For Change and Ready for Anything:

Empowering Staff Through Effective Development

CAROL KOCHAN, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

LARS LEON, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Head, Resource Sharing

Carol Kochan

Resource Sharing Librarian, Head Organizational Development

LARS LEON

Library of the Future

Role of the library – Ithaka Survey

• Buyer

• Gateway to Research

• Undergraduate Support

Increasing Demands

“Night View of The Geisel Library, University of California San Diego”, by O. Palsson

Utah State University Library” by Utah

State Library.

The Stacks” by Roman Boed.

“DSC_7229” by Plashing Vole.

Reimaging Academic Libraries (Lewis)

• Everything Online

• Throw away print collection - Now!

Developing Expertise

• Redefine roles &

departments in library

• Need for technical &

soft skills

• Teams, project based

work

Determining Needs

What is your organization’s culture

• Change

• Barriers

• Goals

Identify Training Needs

• Consultants– Professional

– Business Students

• Survey– Ask Leadership

– Survey (basic to complex)

A Day in the Life: USGS Topographers at Work

By US Geological Survey

Informal Needs Assessment

• Grapevine

• Stress Levels

• Sticking Points

Skills Needed with

Some Development

Ideas

“A leader is someone people follow

Not because they have to

but Because they want to”-Simon Sinek

“I now see how owning our story and

loving ourselves through that process

is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”-Brene Brown

Enabling Success

Enabling Success

✓Wellness

https://www.edgarcayce.org/

about-us/virginia-beach-

hq/walk-the-labyrinth

Enabling Success

✓Administrative

support

✓Champions

✓Models

Enabling Success

✓Trust (but what

is that?)

Enabling Success

✓Leadership

✓Coaching

✓Mentoring

“We don’t have to do all of

it alone. We were never

meant to.”

-Brene Brown

in Rising Strong

Enabling Success

✓Culture – embracing

change, fail/learn,

positive, Ubuntu

http://www.amyreesanderson.com/blog/ubuntu-i-am-because-we-are/

Enabling Success

✓Knowledge into

practice

✓Opportunities

✓Cohorts

✓Time

✓Effective training that

works for staff

Carol KochanUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

Carol.Kochan@usu.edu

Lars LeonUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

lleon@ku.edu

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2017).

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http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/ithaka-sr-us-faculty-survey-2015

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2016. Accessed March 01, 2017. http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/09/libraries-2016/.

• Lewis, David W. Reimagining the academic library. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

• "The Future of Libraries." The Future of Libraries | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Accessed

March 01, 2017. https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu/.

Photo Credits• Slides 6, 9, 10, 14 – Images and graphics by Mikkel Skinner, Utah State University

• Slide 7

– “Night View of The Geisel Library, University of California San Diego” by O Palsson Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution

2.0 Generic (CC-BY2.0). Accessed Feb 28, 2017 https://www.flickr.com/photos/opalsson/15163041049

• Slide 8

– The Stacks” by Roman Boed. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC-BY2.0). Accessed 18 June 2015.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/romanboed/13356494013

– Utah State University Library” by Utah State Library. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial, Share Alike

2.0 Generic (CC-BY2.0). Accessed 18 June 2015. https://www.flickr.com/photos/utahstatelibrary/4539333079

– “DSC_7229” by Plashing Vole. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial, 2.0 Generic (CC-BY2.0). Accessed

18 June 2015. https://www.flickr.com/photos/plashingvole/9246623525

• Slides 12, 19 - Photos by Jordyn Leon

• Slide 13

– “A Day in the Life: USGS Topographers at Work” by the United States Geological Survey. Licensed under a Creative Commons

Attribution/Non-commercial, Share Alike 2.0 Generic (CC-BY2.0). Accessed 28 Feb 2017.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgeologicalsurvey/26126873036/

• Slides 16, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 29 - taken by Lars Leon

• Slide 17 – Photo by Ryleigh Leon

Photo Credits• Slide 22

– https://victorcandel.com/2013/02/12/el-efecto-superman-en-los-procesos-de-seleccion/

– http://www.startrek.com/database_article/troi

• Slide 27

– Labyrinth from https://www.edgarcayce.org/about-us/virginia-beach-hq/walk-the-labyrinth

• Slide 31

– http://www.amyreesanderson.com/blog/ubuntu-i-am-because-we-are/

• Slide 32 – owned by Lars Leon