Effective leadership in a library community is not performed by any one person. Ihttps://www.arsl.org/nstead, it is a collective act of many players contributing their toolset of complementary and evolving skills. Leadership "incubates" best in an environment nurtured by collaborative and continuous learning; it often grows accidentally, sometimes unbeknownst to the leader-to-be. Through peer mentoring and other methods, explore ways to create a generative space that nourishes the infectious qualities of leadership. Develop a network of seasoned learners who will incubate leadership, both within your library and in support of the broader community, collaboratively building and leading a rich and fulfilling learning organization.

Presented by: Jennifer Peterson, Community Manager, OCLC WebJunction, Board Member ARSL, and 2011 LJ Mover & Shaker.

This webinar is an adaptation of a presentation, Mentoring as a subversive activity: growing community leadership, from the 2012 Association for Rural & Small Libraries conference.  

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Related Resources and Links

• Mentoring Resources collected on WebJunction:
  • Mentoring: Leadership as a Subversive Activity
  • Mentoring Workbook
  • Areas for Learning through Mentoring Relationships
  • Leadership and Mentoring Resources
• Postman, Neil and Weingartner, Charles. Teaching as a Subversive Activity
• Rutherford, LeAne H. “Taking Charge of Your Professional Life: A Special Librarian’s Guide to Greater Work Satisfaction.” Information Outlook 3(9)(September 1999): 17-22.
• Kram, Kathy E. and Isabella, Lynn A. “Mentoring Alternatives: The Role of Peer Relationships in Career Development.” Academy of Management Journal 28(1)(March 1985): 110-132.
• Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday/Currency, 1990.


• On Learning Organizations:
  • Power Up Your Learning Organization slides and handouts from PLA 2010 presentation
  • Transition to the Learning Organization, by Joan Giesecke and Beth McNeil
  • Society for Organizational Learning Recommended Reading
• On Learner Biographies: 
  • The Learner Biography Project
  • Learner Biography assignment template
  • Learning from our lives : using educational biographies with adults by Pierre Dominicé
• Other
  
  • World Cafe model
  • Makerspaces, Participatory Learning, and Libraries - Unquiet Librarian
  • Bringing Maker-Style Garage Tinkering Into the Local Library - GOOD