Understanding the changes and shifts in academic libraries presents a challenge for leaders today. We will discuss and explore how an entrepreneurial librarian can plan, and embrace emerging trends. Have you wanted to think outside the library? This session may be right for you.

1. Leadership, Strategic
Planning and Emerging
Trends
ILF 2013 Annual Conference
Wednesday, October 23, 2013: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
David M. Peter, Dean of Learning Resources and
Technology
Vincennes University

2. Leadership, Strategic Planning
and Emerging Trends
Understanding the changes and shifts in academic
libraries presents a challenge for leaders today. We
will discuss and explore how an entrepreneurial
librarian can plan, and embrace emerging trends.
Have you wanted to think outside of the library? This
session may be right for you.

3. Who could benefit?
• Academic librarians
• Library directors

4. Defining terms
Leadership, strategic planning, entrepreneurship and trends
or innovations

5. Leadership
• “Leadership is not about WHO you are or WHERE
you come from. It’s about WHAT you do” (Kouzes
and Posner, 2010, p. 8)
• “Simply put – at its most elemental and practical
level – leadership is communicating to people their
worth and potential so clearly that they come to
see it in themselves” (Covey, 2004, p. 98).

6. Strategic planning
• “… strategic planning as a disciplined effort to
produce fundamental decisions and actions that
shape and guide what an organization is, what it
does, and why it does it” (Bryson, 1995, pp. 4-5)

7. Entrepreneurship
• “We have seen that the function of entrepreneurs
is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of
production by exploiting an invention or, more
generally, an untried technological possibility for
producing a new commodity or producing an old
one in a new way, by opening up a new source of
supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by
reorganizing an industry and so on” (Schumpeter,
1950, p. 22).

8. Trends and/or innovations
• “An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is
perceived as new by an individual or other unit of
adoption” (Rogers, 2003, p. 12).

9. The trends
Impact of leadership and strategic planning

10. Mobile or mobility
• Anywhere, anytime, any device
• Personal digital or SMART devices
• Portable, powerful

11. Mobile and mobility: leadership
• Embrace the shift to mobile leadership, use this as
an opportunity to expand and extend the library –
physically and virtually

12. Mobile and mobility: strategic
planning
• Aggressively explore adopting more digital assets,
that are accessible through mobile devices

13. Library as space or place
• Individual and community
• Personal and public
• Fixed or mobile or virtual

14. Library as space or place:
leadership
• This will be the most difficult trend to adopt,
culturally

15. Library as space or place:
strategic planning
• Explore alternative space use, makerspace areas

16. Content personalization
• Find, tag, save, share, reuse
• Create and recreate content as well

17. Content personalization:
leadership
• This presents an opportunity to promote literacy,
lifelong learning, and, perhaps a greater sense of
worth or value.

18. Content personalization:
strategic planning
• This would be an opportunity for instruction,
outreach, and a greater use of social media.

19. Social
• More than space or place
• Sense of belonging, connecting

20. Social: leadership
• This requires active, intentional, deliberate
engagement.

21. Social: strategic planning
• As the need for socialization continues to grow,
how are we expanding our use of social media?

22. Literacy, information and digital
• Need to determine what makes information “good”
and “reliable”
• Need to use digital technology in a responsible
manner

23. Literacy, information and digital:
leadership
• To impact this trend, leadership must be proactive,
and immersive

24. Literacy, information and digital:
strategic planning
• This trend can and should be a continual focus for
libraries, and appropriate resources should be
available

25. Final thoughts
Role of leadership and strategic planning

26. Questions? Contact?
• David Peter, dpeter@vinu.edu
• Work telephone: 812-888-5815