I hope to network with and learn from other leaders in the field of Librarianship. My area of expertise in the field of Librarianship is in Information literacy education of Engineering and Nursing Students. I hope to come away with new leadership skills which will further enhance my abilities as a leader and realise the potential of my library. Some questions I want to reflect on while I'm here are and things I want to change which are outcomes of the course:
1) What kind of a leader am I? I believe that I need to be a more assertive leader and communicate more with the staff through passing along decisions made at a higher level. Communication has been a problem from my side. In this respect I need to be clearer when giving an instruction and delegating work.
2) I have identified that I am more of a diplomat than a manager and lead through diplomacy, given my unique circumstances at work. Allow me to elaborate: I manage a branch library of CPUT, the Nursing college library in Athlone. All the teaching staff are paid by the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC). CPUT has an agency agreement with the Nursing College. All the students are CPUT students. The staff do not all have access to the electronic sources of the library subscribes to such as online databases and e-books. How do I go about navigating these two cumbersome bureaucracies? How do I provide staff of the nursing college access to my e-resources without overstepping the copyright laws and lead in this area?
3)I definitely want to create a wiki and place all my papers complete to date, 6 of them, on the wiki along with completed links to the important keywords so that the documents can be searched on the web.
4) I also need to set up a blog addressing information literacy issues on my campus. My library users will be able to access information on a daily basis on various developments in Nursing and Medicine.
5) I have already set up a facebook site for my library. I just did this today, and it needs to be developed. I can use this as a forum to inform my students/ users about various developments in the library.
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With regard to item no. 5. Not only can I use this forum for my students, but also for my staff and fellow librarians.
ReplyDeleteItem No. 5. The Athlone Nursing college library of CPUT has seen some of the worst rioting and disorderliness from students in many years. Not only was the library a safe haven from police running rampant on campus, but it was also a place where those who did not want to take part in the protest could reassess their own involvement in the protest action.
ReplyDeleteThe facebook site, which is already active, could be used as a forum to educate students about their rights and the rights of others. At what point do our own rights infringe on the rights of others. Here I particularly think of the recent demonstrations and disruption of classes. Our right to protest is enshrined in our constitution and come as a result of our repressive past. Does our right to protest include the right to disrupt classes? Does this action not trample on the rights of those who wish not to partake in the protest action? See the following:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_protest
http://fxi.org.za/PDFs/Publications/RGAHandbook.pdf