Launching Your Star Potential: Leadership for Today’s Libraries - an ALCTS Virtual Midwinter Symposium 

If you’ve always wanted to attend one of ALCTS’ outstanding midwinter symposia, here is your chance.   Whether or not you plan to attend midwinter in Dallas, you can now enjoy the first annual ALCTS virtual midwinter symposium!  Offered in webinar format, the symposium will consist of five one-hour webinars held over a five day period the week of January 9-13, 2012.  

Sessions will begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern time and will last approximately 60 minutes. 

Leadership in the library and information world takes many forms -- it is not just those in traditional supervisory or managerial roles who lead.   Across all organizational levels, individuals exercise leadership through understanding, appreciating, and meeting the needs of those they serve.  Librarians, library staff, and information professionals who lead, or aspire to lead, will find this symposium valuable.

The speakers represent a variety of viewpoints, from inside and outside of librarianship.

Adam Goodman, Director, Center for Leadership, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Monday, January 9, 2012: “I’m Your Leader: the Fundamentals of Effective Leadership”

Pamela Sandlian Smith, Library Director, Anythink Libraries, Rangeview Library District, Thornton, Colorado
Tuesday, January 10, 2012: “Leadership by Distruption”

Mary Page, Associate Director for Collections & Technical Services, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, Florida
Wednesday, January 11, 2012: “Leadership: What it Means for the Library Middle Managers”

Erica Findley, Digital Resources and Metadata Librarian, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon and Maureen Sullivan, Maureen Sullivan Associates, Annapolis, Maryland and President-Elect, American Library Association
Thursday, January 12, 2012: “Leadership: from Proto-Start to Supernova”

James Hilton, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Friday, January 13, 2012: “Leading Change”

For complete details see: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/ala/mw/star.cfm

Registration fee for each webinar is: $39 for ALCTS members, $49 for individuals, $99 for groups; current student members of ALA are free.  Special pricing is available if you register for all five webinars: $156 for ALCTS members, $196 for individuals, $450 for groups.

To register: http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=olweb&ConferenceTypeCode=X&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm or call 1.800.545.2433 and press 5 to be connected with ALA Member and Customer Service.

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ALCTS will also offer an in-person midwinter symposium on Friday, January 20.  For details about “Libraries, Linked Data and the Semantic Web” and to register, see http://ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pr.cfm?id=8256