Generations and more at LLN
What’s new at the Library Leadership Network, LLN?
New and improved articles
- Generational notes includes a cluster of GenX generalizations, praising them as the Leaders We Need, and a response of sorts from a GenX academic librarian.
- Problematic management offers “Ten ways to handle your mistakes”–and be assured that, if you’re human, there will be mistakes.
- Two new commentaries now lead off Innovation notes.
- While we continue to hope for direct contributions from LLN users, Leadership lessons from ALA 2009 now includes notes on “Leadership beyond the recession,” the OCLC symposium at ALA Annual 2009.
- You can’t be a leader without followers–and middle managers may be both. That’s the theme of “Middle managers: leaders and followers,” a new commentary in Leaders and followers.
- Working on Engaging the community–as you should be? David Lee King offers “Ten things to think about when designing digital experiences.”
- Manage like an entrepreneur now includes a brief note on the distinction between inventors and entrepreneurs.
- A couple of items have been added to the catchall page Technology tidbits.
- And there’s a brand-new What’s hot at LLN? with the 25 articles most often viewed over the past month–seven of which weren’t on last month’s list–and the 25 other articles most viewed over the history of LLN.
Leader’s Digest
- New Sony Ebook Reader: what you need to know offers quick notes on the cheaper new Sony reader and quicker notes on the ebook market.
- John Chambers of Cisco offers leadership lessons.
- Another CEO tells us “What only the CEO can do.”
- Another piece summarizes two very different articles in the New York Times–on hybrid technologies and digital textbooks.
Quick take
This fortnight’s Quick take offers part of a February 2008 peer panel on Entrepreneurialism.
