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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">News from the American Library Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:blue">Pamela J. Hickson-Stevenson, Ohio Chapter Councilor to ALA and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:blue">Deputy Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:blue">Akron-Summit County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:blue">Akron, OH 44326<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#FF6600"><a href="http://www.akronlibrary.org/"><u><span style="color:#FF6600">http://www.akronlibrary.org</span></u></a></span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#F79646">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#FF6600">The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support, improve, and enrich
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 10, 2014 12:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hickson-Stevenson, Pamela<br>
<b>Subject:</b> ALA Leadership Institute applications open<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Application process now open for 2014 ALA Leadership Institute</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">The application process for the 2014 “Leading to the Future” ALA Leadership Institute (August 10-14, Eaglewood Resort, Illinois) is now open, with applications accepted through April 25, 2014. Building on the success of the 2013
inaugural ALA Leadership Institute, and with support from Innovative Interfaces, the four-day immersive leadership development program for 40 mid-career librarians will be led again by ALA Past-President Maureen Sullivan and ACRL Content Strategist Kathryn
Deiss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">The institute helps future library leaders develop and practice their leadership skills in areas critical to the future of the libraries they lead. Through reflective and active learning, it offers participants an opportunity to
delve into leadership practices, concepts, and frameworks, and to shape their own sustainable leadership vision and ethos, at the same time as building a learning community and network. With content based on real-world cases and nuanced situations, participants
explore topics related to the greatest challenges and possibilities of leading into a future marked by turbulence and ambiguity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Participants in the 2013 inaugural institute highlighted the wide range of benefits they felt the institute offered, describing it as a “life-changing time,” and that it felt like a think tank of 40 “energetic, talented, and visionary”
librarians from all types of libraries, offering much learning from fellow participants. You can
<a href="http://iz4.me/EChq1zww01V1"><span style="color:windowtext">read what 2013 participants had to say</span></a> on the Transforming Libraries website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">The application form as well as details and guidelines are at
<a href="http://iz4.me/FChq1zww01V1"><span style="color:windowtext">http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/ala-leadership-institute</span></a>. Applicants may nominate themselves or be nominated by their employer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Participation includes a free one-year membership in LLAMA (Library Leadership and Management Association). LLAMA President, Catherine Friedman, said “To lead effectively in today’s, and tomorrow’s, libraries, library leaders must
take the time to develop and strengthen their leadership abilities, and to discover new and inventive ways of looking at things.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Support for the Institute is provided by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span></em><span class="table">Innovative is dedicated to providing leading technology solutions and services that empower libraries and enrich their users worldwide.
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