Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians

Program Overview

LIAL provides the tools and insight needed to improve your leadership effectiveness and help your library respond to a rapidly shifting landscape. It is designed for those who must think strategically about emerging student and faculty needs, changing expectations of library staff, new technologies, and long-range plans for the library. The curriculum will deepen your insights and broaden your conceptual repertoire of valuable approaches to leadership. The institute also provides a valuable opportunity for participants to assess their own leadership strengths and weaknesses in a supportive and engaging learning environment.

Program Objectives

The institute provides important leadership concepts and applies them to the practical challenges of leading and managing within the contemporary academic library. The curriculum addresses three areas—planning, organizational strategy and change, and transformational learning. The overarching goal of the institute curriculum is to increase your leadership and management capacity. Throughout the program, two key questions focus faculty attention and guide participant learning:

• How well-positioned is my organization to meet current and future challenges?
• How effective is my own leadership?

Who Should Attend

LIAL is designed for college and university librarians with leadership and/or management responsibilities. Library deans and directors, along with those reporting to them in positions like associate university librarian or assistant library dean. Other campus administrators with responsibilities that routinely affect the library and other important library-related functions will also benefit from the program.

Faculty Chair

Joseph Zolner is Lecturer on Education and Director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As HIHE Director, he is responsible for the quality, relevance and variety of professional development programs offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the higher education community. Previously, Zolner served as Director of the Graduate Management Institute at Union College, NY and Director of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Northeastern University, MA.

Additional Faculty

James Honan is Senior Lecturer and Educational Co-chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Honan's teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit organizations, organizational performance measurement and management, and higher-education administration. Honan serves as a consultant on strategic planning, resource allocation and performance measurement and management to numerous colleges, universities, schools and nonprofit organizations, both nationally and internationally.

Maureen Sullivan is a Consultant and Past President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Sullivan has more than twenty five years of experience as an organizational development consultant whose practice focuses on the delivery of consulting and training services to libraries and other information organizations. Her experience includes twelve years as the human resources administrator in the libraries at the University of Maryland and at Yale University. Sullivan is a past president of ACRL and was instrumental in the design and delivery of several of ACRL's management training programs.

Testimonials and Stories

"I left the program with a renewed belief that committed individuals can make a positive difference and that I have something important to contribute to my campus."
Karen Reilly
Associate Director, Library Services
College of the Holy Cross (MA)

Enrollment Instructions

The Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians is limited to those with significant administrative responsibility in an institution of higher education, and who show high promise for making a significant contribution in the future.

Applications from library directors, university librarians, and their associates and direct reports will be reviewed accepted on a rolling basis. Since this institute fills quickly, early applications are recommended.

Please click here to apply to Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians.

Fees

The comprehensive program fee includes tuition, program and instructional materials, refreshment breaks, some meals, an opening reception and special events during the week.

Accommodation

Hotel accommodations are made available to participants at a reduced rate.

The Harvard Square Hotel
110 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Rate: $169 per night, plus applicable taxes
Reservations: 617-491-2222
www.hotelsinharvardsquare.com
Reference: GSE, LIAL
Rate valid until July 12
Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis

The Inn at Harvard
1201 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Rate: $199 per night, plus applicable taxes
Reservations: 617-491-2222
www.hotelsinharvardsquare.com
Reference: HGSE, LIAL
Rate valid until July 12
Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis

Courtyard by Marriott Cambridge
777 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Reservations: 866-323-4159, 800-321-2211
$89 per night, plus applicable taxes
Reference: HGSE LIAL
Rate valid until: July 9
Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis
Please note: The Courtyard by Marriott is located 1.5 miles from the HGSE campus

Contact

For more information please call 1-800-545-1849 or email hihe@gse.harvard.edu.