Growing Your Leadership Skills: 7 Tips for Special Librarians
Great library leaders aren’t born—they’re made through learning, self-reflection, and practice. Here are seven strategies to help you grow and lead with impact.
Great library leaders aren’t born—they’re made through learning, self-reflection, and practice. Here are seven strategies to help you grow and lead with impact.
In her new book, Library Website Design and Development, Brighid M. Gonzales provides a step-by-step guide to help librarians create websites that engage and support their users. In this interview, Brighid shares insights on trends, opportunities, and best practices for building a strong library website.
These frameworks provide insights and approaches to help you determine the best ways to address build and promote AI literacy in your specific context.
17 actionable methods for marketing libraries of all types, sizes, and budgets from a library expert and instructor
Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio argue that emotions matter both to people whose histories are documented by archives and to archivists/librarians
An in-depth overview by Sabine Jean Dantus on empathy-driven marketing fundamentals and skills required for librarians
Suggestions for special librarians from Claude on how to foster cross-generational AI learning communities in the workplace.
Resources for staying current on the quickly changing AI landscape from a library expert.
Interview about the rebirth of SLA’s Information Outlook as a quarterly online publication with interview with Professor Lesley Farmer
Generative AI can be used in many ways as part of a typical workflow; examples and thoughts about what the future holds
Lucidea announces SydneyDigital, stellar special library automation for a digital-first world
Interview about the rebirth of SLA’s Information Outlook as a quarterly online publication with interview with librarian Tom Rink
Interview with the MLA’s Midwest Chapter president about the activities and value of the association for health sciences librarians.
Susannah Barnes is the Co-Lead of the Data Community for the Special Libraries Association. If you work with data in any capacity, this interview will be of interest to you.
Interview with SLA’s Treasurer about the future of the special library profession and how the Special Libraries Association can benefit librarians
Interview with Cara Marcus, the president of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) transportation community about transportation libraries and SLA
Interview with the president of the Art Libraries Society of North America about their strategies, goals, membership, and ways to participate
Interview with the author of a book on authorship and copyright policies; tips on establishing fair authorship policies and procedures.
A framework for librarians and archivists on how to go back and reconstitute and reconstruct community histories more inclusively.
Library expert’s interview with Benjamin Aldred, current chair of the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association
Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) past-Chair Kian Flynn describes its usefulness to government information librarians.
Interview with the Executive Director and President of the Special Libraries Association about the future of SLA and its strategic direction.
Interview with John DiGilio, SLA President 2024, on the current state of special librarianship and the outlook for the Special Libraries Association.
Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals is an introduction to the wide range of web metrics that provide useful insights to librarians
Interview with author of a book about the societal impact and ethics of using Python and data science tools; relevant to special librarians