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Focusing On What Works


A little over a week ago Champlain College hosted a two day summit called Building Partnerships for a Thriving Workforce. They invited college staff, faculty and students, but also a lot of community members, business owners, parents and local stakeholders. The focus of it was creating the workforce of the future which involves both the [...]

On Leadership in Libraries


This past week I attended the New England Library Leadership Symposium facilitated by Maureen Sullivan in North Andover, MA. She lead a challenging and rewarding program over the course of a week, and as a group we did a lot of sharing and learning.  I wanted to distill down a few lessons that stuck out [...]

New Ideas: Separating The Chaff From The Grain


I enjoyed both Karen Schneider’s post and Meredith Farkas’ follow-up post about devil’s advocates. They talk about new ideas and how they require a lot of experimentation and iterations as well as people to challenge them to make them stronger. I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while, and I think it’s a very important [...]