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Library Leadership in the 21st Century: Navigating Organizational Success

Explore strategies to position libraries successfully in a changing environment, aligning strengths with institutional missions. Assess individual behavior, internal and external influences, and organizational dynamics to achieve success. Gain insights from experts in organizational behavior and leadership to enhance library services and collections. Join us at the 10th Annual Library Leadership Institute in Hong Kong to learn and contribute to the future of libraries. Visit our website for more information.

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Library Leadership in the 21st Century: Navigating Organizational Success

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  1. LI Haipeng University Librarian Hong Kong Baptist University March 18, 2012 Positioning Libraries for the 21st Century:Aligning Your Strengths with organizational Success21世紀圖書館的定位：將優勢結合機構的成功 The 10th Annual Library Leadership Institute Preserving our Past: Creating our Future Hong Kong. 16-20 March 2012.

  2. Changing times • Information explosion • Increasing demands • Technological development • Changing environments • Educational reform • Millennial generation • Global city gleemsworld.wordpress.com Times of Change

  3. Changing institutions • Institutional transformation • Adapt to Learning, teaching and research • Changing libraries • Role of libraries • Collections • Services Times of Change ideachampions.com

  4. Mission of Institution • Higher Education • Learning, teaching and research • Role of Library • Support learning, teaching & research • Provide quality service • Build quality collection Institutional/organizational mission

  5. How to achieve organizational success • Align library’s goals with mission of institution • Learning, teaching, research, service Organizational Success shutterstock.com

  6. Examine organizational behavior - Squeeky wheel gets the grease (叫轮得到油) - Leading bird gets shot at (枪打出头鸟) organizational behavior dpchallenge.com northernwoodlands.org

  7. Organizational behavior • organizational behavior has to do with how people behave in an organization, and how their behavior affects the organization’s performance organizational behavior http://www.sodahead.com/

  8. Assess individual behavior • Type • Diversity • Self-Rating Scale Frames http://www.leebolman.com/frames_selfrating_scale.htmLee G. Bolman, Ph.D.Professor and Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in LeadershipBloch School of ManagementUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City Self Assessment utsa.edu

  9. Individual behavior • Complex – attitude, personality, perception, motivation, culture • Different – each person is unique • Integration – individual and organizational Self Assessment northernwoodlands.org

  10. create awareness about personality and behavioral types, • determine how people fit within an organization, what their communication styles are, • if they make effective leaders, • how they influence organizational behavior. Self Assessment

  11. Library as organizations • External influence: • Political/economic, Geographical, Cultural • Parent organizations • Complex structures Library Environment takoi.edu.hk

  12. Know yourself • Be confident • Take initiative • Reach out • Build network • Each individual is a talent • Seize the opportunity • Assess yourself About yourself coolcoolbird.blogspot.com

  13. Changing Library, Changing Landscape:Hong Kong Baptist University Learning commons

  14. Thank you! Questions?

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