Thanks to Judith A. Siess’ OPL Plus blog post The Library Rebooted–Lessons for Library Leaders for pointing out The Library Rebooted Report by Scott Corwin, Elizabeth Hartley, and Harry Hawkes. Here is an excerpt from her post in which she gleans:
“…the seven imperatives for library leadership:
1. ‘Rethink the operating model. Many of the old assumptions about running a library—that the measure of a library’s quality is the size of its book collection, that there’s value in keeping even infrequently loaned books on the shelves, that library staffing questions shouldn’t be questioned—are outmoded and need to be set aside.’
2. ‘Understand and respond to user needs…’
3. ‘Embrace the concept of continuous innovation…’
4. ‘Forge a digital identity…’
5. ‘Connect with stakeholders in ways pure Internet companies cannot. …take advantage of [the libraries’] local strength and on the research library side share their service-oriented expertise in new ways and through new channels.’
6. ‘Expand the metrics…online-specific metrics will have to be added.’
7. ‘Be courageous. The library’s underlying promise hasn’t changed…but the environment in which libraries operate has certainly shifted, and the challenge for those running them is to figure out the evolutionary path they should follow. There is no one answer…nothing at all is written in stone.’…”
