Training programs for library leadership in the United States

Abstract

In the last two or three decades, digital information technologies have brought a big transformation in libraries, and the technological infrastructure needed to support digital information services has kept pace as well. Library leaders are required to address how their libraries can make library services meet user information needs, and to consider measures that libraries should take to make full use of digital transformation. Presents an overview of various educational or training programs that have emerged in the US for new library leaders, including the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute, the National Library of Medicine's Associate Fellowship Program, and the Syracuse Summer Institute on Leadership and Changes in an Information Society. Describes the program offered by Frye Leadership Institute since 1999 in terms of curriculum design and results obtained from the program. Also describes the Mortenson Center International Library Leadership Program, in which Japanese librarians are allowed to participate.