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By: Creativity Killed the Library Star « Agnostic, Maybe | The Self Efficacy of Librarians: becoming "future confident" | Scoop.it

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:24:06 +0000

[...] I listened to Dr. David Lankes' “Killing Librarianship” keynote last week and I keep thinking about one particular aspect of the presentation. Namely, that slide … [...]

By: Béatrice Coveney

Béatrice Coveney — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:12:31 +0000

I wrote an article on creativity in a library work environment in England a few years ago. Maybe, you would find it interesting to read and give further comments:
http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/article/viewFile/83/127

By: M. Jean Darbyshire

M. Jean Darbyshire — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:32:47 +0000

Another aspect of innovation and creativity in libraries lies in developing an organizational climate that is futile to nurture and facilitate these seeds to grow and flourish and grow or wilt and die (in which case much is learned). Up to now I believe this has been expected of the “leadership”. Now we are seeing some changes come about within clusters of the organization so there us hope.

Langes talks about the “responsibility of everyone” and I believe the culture of the organization is also the “responsibility of everyone”. This is an aspect of libraries that is not often talked about (except the negative views expressed above). Making it OK for library members to develop and voice their ideas in the organization is a must for survival. Appointed leaders can no longer do a satisfactory job. It must be a leader in every chair!

By: Killing the Library Quickly | The Atlas of New Librarianship

Killing the Library Quickly | The Atlas of New Librarianship — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:22:55 +0000

[...] I did the Keynote at NELA and it was received very well, including a very thoughtful blog post by Agnostic, Maybe. I needed to create shorter more pithy version for the iSchools webpage, and so edited it down from [...]

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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:19:19 +0000

By: LOST in Libraryland « bringyournoise

LOST in Libraryland « bringyournoise — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:17:46 +0000

[...] the posts referenced above with posts by James Weinheimer, Seth Godin, Andy Woodworth, and 21st Century Library Blog which all basically address the same thing in different ways–a [...]

By: Ann Wilberton

Ann Wilberton — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:13:37 +0000

Agreed!!!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:18:51 +0000

I would change “some” to “most” — “Most of our innovations…are from the imaginations of our rank and file.” And, I’m a library director

By: bringyournoise

bringyournoise — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:01:27 +0000

By the way–my comment is in no way meant to be a negative reflection on the person who writes our official system blog. She is a very creative person! It’s just that the blog is intended to be more of a newsroom, not a forum for creative writing or personal views on libraries or library issues.

By: Paul McLaughlan

Paul McLaughlan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:57:56 +0000

Love this! Yes, librarians really have to break out of their mould–not only within the profession, but in the minds (and hearts) of our clients.