Issues with unconferences and network management at LLN
What’s new at the Library Leadership Network?
New and updated articles
- Unconference philosophy and issues brings together old and new commentaries on the philosophy behind unconferences and library camps, and some of the controversies with these innovative conferences, with some material moved from Unconferences and library camps.
- There’s new material in Unconference and library camp practices.
- We’ve also added Unconferences in practice: Notes and resources for longer commentaries on specific unconferences and links to external resources. The article begins with notes from Library Camp Kansas, Library Camp of the West and the One Big Library unconference.
- Organization and transformation now includes more notes on “network management” and Gary Hamel’s generational generalizations in “The Facebook generation vs. the Fortune 500.”
Leader’s Digest
- “Information visualization: The next frontier?” discusses a range of techniques that can clarify complex information when used appropriately.
- “More searchable geodata with new Google API” is about Google’s decision to support more location-based services.
- Have you been assured over the years that all good work is teamwork? Now we read “Why teams don’t work” with some tips for coping with this “worst option for tackling a difficult task.”
- “CERN’s collaborative management model” may be a useful example for other organizations.
You’ll find all of May’s Leader’s Digest items, in their entirety, in Leader’s Digest May 2009–until those items are dispersed into other articles.
Quick take
This week’s Quick take–which might be next week’s as well–is “Confessions of a library user,” a pseudonymous commentary on how a lapsed public library user came back to the fold.
