The role of the librarian in developing leadership capabilities in staff

Abstract

This session will focus on the dilemmas and challenges of providing effective leadership skills for modern schools with digital information and communication technology (ICT) capabilities. It will review the selected challenges of engaging different generations of staff in ICT based learning and recommend strategies for effective leadership of ICT based schools. It will particularly focus on the issues of how a librarian and a library can assist to provide relevance and appropriateness of ICT based proposals andprograms, and suggest ways to implement leadership policies which enable senior staff to remain accountable whilst all the changes enabled by ICT based learning are occurring within a school.