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BEYOND VISION: Making it realKate KellyLAI Career Development Group. Lead to SucceedRCSI. October 14, 2016
RCSI Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Coláiste Ríoga na Máinleá in Éirinn
LEADERSHIP & VISION
Leadership Propositions:Leadership is• Relational• Conversational• Contextual• At all levels in an organisation• Inseparable from learning• Enhanced by a clear sense of purpose• Values-based• Leadership requires a personal vision• For leaders what is “real” is always changing
Source: Sheppard Moscow. Leadership Development Programme. 2014. Used with permission
Leading
THINKING
DOINGBEING
"As you think, so will you be. And as you are, so will you do.“Lee Thayer. Thinking, Being, Doing
The Vision Thing
Photo: Corey Miller. https://www.flickr.com/photos/toomuchfire/
Warren G Bennis
“Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”
Warren G Bennis
“Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality”
Willie Walsh
Leadership is the “ability to
give bad news”
vi.sion /’viZHen/n.
Imagined idea or a goal towards which one aspires
http://empireone.com.au/our-vision-purpose-and-values/
LIBRARIES, LEADERSHIP & VISION
LIBRARY LEADERSHIP?
• No such thing• A label rather than a vocation• Put leadership theory and practice in
context, i.e. apply to library
Bell, S. (2016). There’s No Such Thing as Library Leadership | Leading From the Library. [online] Library Journal. Available at: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/09/opinion/leading-from-the-library/theres-no-such-thing-as-library-leadership-leading-from-the-library [Accessed 11 Oct. 2016].
Management & LIS Literature• New type of leader • “Soft” or “people” skills – including emotional
intelligence and vision…imparting vision to help organisations embrace change
• Allow leaders at all levels to emerge• Adapt to workplace where there is more
experimentation, more adaptation and more “healthy anxiety”
Gwyer, R. (2010). Leading in Difficult Times: What Can We Learn from the Literature?. New Review of Information Networking, 15(1), pp.4-15.
Most Important Leadership Skill in Academic Library Leaders? Vision• Be a visionary• Be a person of vision – constantly scanning the
environment, analysing and interpreting it, developing a vision that sets a clear direction
• Take strategic action (as opposed to planning)• Be able to articulate a vision based on university and
library environment• Persuade and guide others to strategic vision and the
goals and objectives to work towards that vision.• Other 4? Management, Integrity, Collaboration,
Communication
Binh P. Le (2015). Academic library leadership in the digital age. Library Management. 36(4/5),pp 300-314
Vision Statements“Toronto Public Library will be recognized as the world's leading library by informing and inspiring Toronto and its communities, making us all more resilient, more knowledgeable, more connected and more successful”.
Madison Public Library: your place to learn, share, and create.
The California Digital Library’s vision is to elevate the digital library for UC so that it becomes "expansively global and deeply local"
To transform the way people experience knowledge. (Virginia Tech)
The UO Libraries serves as a powerful catalyst for learning and knowledge creation. We innovate, adapt, and excel in our efforts to improve the world, one curious mind at a time.
NCSU: The Libraries: NC State's competitive advantage
The vision is for the Library to be the physical and virtual “go-to” place to learn and to research (TCD)
To share the story of Ireland with the world through our unique collections (NLI)
STRATFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY VISION STATEMENTWe’re here for you…The library is a vibrant community hub and favourite destination where personable, knowledgeable and progressive staff, provide innovative and interactive programs and services to anyone.
Or you can take us with you…With robust technology and engaging on-line spaces, the library transforms community life by inspiring and enabling literacy, curiosity, creativity and change.
To refresh your spirit. The library is essential to community life because of its deeply inclusive and collaborative approach to making this a better place to live.
RCSI LIBRARY 2008-2016
RCSI Library 2009 Strategic Plan
Vision: Our vision is that in “three” years’ time the RCSI Library and Information Service will:1. Provide excellent online
biomedical resources in physical environments that are people-centred learning spaces
2. Serve the entire RCSI community through its co-ordinated network of libraries
3. Use the skills of information specialists to support education, research and clinical practice in new ways
4. Develop a “living” heritage collection focused on surgery in Ireland and related themes
5. Be a model health sciences library and information service that implements international best practice
Life is what happens to us while we are making other
plansAllen Saunders 1957 Readers Digest
All Action is Strategic
• Alignment with organisational strategy• Persistence, Patience• Persuasion/Influencing – up, down, and sideways• Resourcing• Risk-taking• Resilience• Belief• Buy-in• Engagement• Action
Vision for RCSI Library?• Over-arching• Vision within visions
– Online– Onsite– Heritage– Records– Clinical – Bahrain
• Connection between them?– Skill set and service– Health sciences
Image: http://www.brainbalancecenters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Brain-Connections-800.jpeg
Move on Many Fronts
Storywebsite
Collections
SpaceSkills
Heritage
“Friends”
Records IT
Sale of antiquarian books
RCSI: Services and Resources
2008
2016
Library Buildings
• Physical manifestations of vision– For their communities/organisations– For the library profession– For us as individuals
• Symbolic of change
• Catalyst for change
RCSI: Physical Space 2008
RCSI’s Academic Education Building 2017
Library
Learning Commons Pop-up Expo Stage
Ampitheatre
Customer Service Ethos & Model
Evolution of Team and Teams2008 2011 2016 Teams
Archives & Special Collections
Archives & Records Management
Heritage Heritage & RecordsRecords & Information Compliance
Systems Systems & Repository
Systems Support & Development
Service Delivery
Technical Services
Information Resources Management
Information Resources Management
Information Services
Information Services
Customer Services & CommunicationsTeaching & Learning Support
Education, Research and
Clinical Support
Beaumont Hospital
Beaumont Hospital
Clinical Librarian
Research Support
Scholarly Communications & Research Support
RCSI Bahrain (informal)
RCSI Bahrain (formal)
WHERE DO YOU START?
Hunt Library NCSU
http://snohetta.com/projects/10-james-b-hunt-jr-library
“Begin with the end in mind”Covey, S. (1989). The seven habits of highly effective people. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Leading the Library (when you’re not in charge)
• Cast vision• Plan strategically• Manage projects• Reject passivity• Build your team• Implement accountability
Boatright, Beth (2015) leading the library (when you’re not in charge), College and Undergraduate Libraries, 22(3-4), 343-357
• Add detail to the “big picture” • Scan the environment especially outside
the sector• Make suggestions, proposals.• Try things• Make mistakes • “Care and not care”
And
Grotzinger, Laurel A.; Carmichael, James Vinson, Jr.; Maack, Mary Niles (1994). Women's work : vision and change in librarianship : papers in honor of the centennial of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/3859
Visions for Irish Libraries?• Dublin City Library • Dun Laoghaire Lexicon• National Library
– Strategic Plan 2016-2021, – Lunchtime library lecture series
• Trinity College Dublin – “The Library of the Future; the Future of the Library” series
• DBS• Open Libraries• Re-associate the word “library”?