• MBLC Trustee handbook
• Selectman handbook
• Timeline of what happens when across the state
• Admin calendar of internal and external must do activities/tasks
• Contact list for expert advise and mentoring
• Long Range Planning requirements
• Rules, regulations, elegibility requirements of networks and regions
• Massachusetts Regulations and Laws
• Library governance in Massachusetts (state, local, trustees)
• Tips on the Politics of the Job (Key relationship building)
• Facilities maintenance checklist and contact list
• New construction checklist
• Budgeting tips and strategies
• Guidelines on the Massachusetts Bidding Process
• Grantwriting
• Disaster Preparedness
• Tips on Using Technology to Establish Collegiality and Advocacy: blogs, essential list servs, wikis
• Marketing How To’s                           

• Advocacy
• Media relationships
• Service issues (policy)
• Director training and education programs: Library schools – online programs
• How to make the most of Friends, Foundations and Volunteers
• Staff development
• Issues of Legal Liability
• Professional Journal Lists
• Working with multiple branch libraries

• Mentor lists (at local and national level)

• Budget
• Standards (e.g., ALA, ACRL, MCCLPHEI)

                     ACRL Standards and Guidelines 

 

• Contact lists
• Campus advocacy tips, marketing, sharing newsletter tips
• Partnerships on campus/natural partners
• Developing IT relationship
• Web Page How To’s
• Consortia - purchaing, borrowing, who can join, how to approach
• Links to unions
• Job descriptions, job postings, what comparable libraries are posting, trend
• Resources on Comparable jobs – buzz words to use

• Assessment / program review
• Technology issues
• ILS list
• Staff development tips, providers and opportunities
• Supervision skills, training, staff development
• Questions to ask your H.R. Department
• Hiring, fixing bad hires
• Interviewing, motivating staff, evaluations, giving positive feedback
• Sharing good experiences about interviewing, hiring
• Time management
• Evaluations
• Top Questions to Ask When You Get on the Job
• Space planning
• Collection management
• Staffing levels
• Info literacy
• Teaching
• Digitization
• Friends
• Archives
• Grant writing
• What to do on your first week (create list)
• What to join, to learn, to do and what connections to make
• Schmoozing – knowing campus landscape
• What is faculty status

                    ACRL Standards for Faculty Status       

                    Guidelines for Academic Status for College and University Librarians 

                    ACRL/AAUP/AAC Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians draft

 

• Participating in faculty activities
• Small bargaining unit

                           

• State list servs – regional lists  http://mblc.state.ma.us/mblc/regional/lists/distribution/index.php
• Management strategies
• Bidding processes
• Introducing self to staff
• Statistics to gather
• Accreditiing organizations (e.g., NEASC - timetables for NEASC)
• Academic Library Survey (ALS, fomerly IPEDS)
• MBLC - responsibilities, statistics 
• Professional organizations - ACRL/NEC   NELINET, ASIS
• Assessment, LibQual, program reviews
• Long range planning - what can regions do to help, templates for planning  MBLC long range planning information
• Technology - looking at new technology, "sandbox," links to new technology, who's using what?

                            NELINET sandbox

• Vendors
• Open source software
• Building maintenance, facility management
• Sorting tool on website
• Time management - managing paper, emails, chaos, expectations
• Space planning
• Appropriate staffing levels
• Information literacy

                            ACRL Information Literacy

• Teaching classes
• Library liaisons
• Disaster planning

                            dPlan

• Friends' organizations - how to build

                            FOLUSA How to Organize an Academic Friends Group

• Library Committees - "Academic Library Committees: Their Role in Participative Management," College & Research Libraries, v55 n6 p511-26 Nov 1994.
• Listservs for library directors - recommendations, links
• Working with libraries on multiple campuses

• ACRL, ALA, ACRL
• NMRLS - directors' page
• Regions have policies page, job descriptions
• Leadership programs
• WMRLS - coop page
• Digital Commonwealth
• Wisconsin, Michigan, samples from other states
• MBLC
• MLA
• NELa
• NELINET
• NEASC
• Connecticut Library Association

• Who to go to on your campus - to avoid, to get things done, to build bridges
• Skill sets - what makes a good library director (on ALA site - general skills)
• The academic library in the community - being a good neighbor
• Fund raising
• Grant writing
• Grant opportunities - how much latitude does the library have when there's a development department on campus?  (Library gets on others' priorities list)
• What to do the first week, month on the job - how to introduce yourself to the staff and transition - do you made changes early or wait?
• Joining committees, boards - on and off campus
• Getting out of the library
• Internal staff development - encouraging
• Differences in private/public college issues
• Doing more with less; doing a lot with a little
• Statewide databases; BPL databases
• Good website sheet design; what libraries have on their websites, who's in charge of the websites, website politics
• IT terminology
• Use of blogs, links to  other library blogs
• Cycle of budget - when to start, timelines

• Acronyms / Glossary
• Calendar for both External & Internal dates
• Checklist of Nuts and Bolts and deadlines
• Associations worth joining and keeping abreast of
• Leadership Development Pointers
  • Relational strategies
  • Self-care/know thyself – (Resources for identifying your management and leadership styles and for understanding others)
  • Knowing culture – what is important to your situation

• Managerial Tips

• Communication Strategies

• Building Collegiality – Working with the Faculty
• State Documents & Initiatives

• What School and/or Consortium Committees to Belong To or to Initiate
• Collection Management Practices / Purchasing practices

• Vendor Services

• Checklist on What Your Region does for you
• Checklist on Library of Last Recourse Services
• School policies: AUPs
• Emerging technologies and applications hot topics list
• Sustainability
• Massachusetts Law:

• Programming (by grade levels / developmentally appropriate)

• Annual report writing
• NEASC Self-Study tips and guidelines
• Search strategies for library positions

 

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