CE202 Do You Want to Be a Library Director: Knowledge, Skills, and Career Paths

Level: Intermediate+
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $290 (nonmember, $520)
Attendance max: 15

Instructor(s): James Shedlock, AHIP, FMLA, Director, Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Carol G. Jenkins, AHIP, FMLA, Director, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; and M. J. Tooey, AHIP, FMLA, Executive Director, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland–Baltimore

Offered: Saturday, May 19, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

The course is designed to inform MLA members who aspire to become academic health sciences library directors. The course will prepare MLA members to consider the leadership challenges in academic health sciences libraries and to assess their own career goals and readiness. The course addresses: leadership potential, directors’ activities in the academic health center environment, self-assessment, and service as iterim/acting director.