Personal Philosophy
Throughout my life I have always identified with leadership roles: attending leadership conferences in high school, taking management classes in college, and attending work conferences on leadership. I have always wanted to work in upper management.
My father was in a high level position in education and I loved how he motivated the people within his organization to be their best. His employees loved him and admired who he was as a leader and a person. He was engaging, inspiring and effective. Everyone respected his decisions and was inspired to strive towards organization goals. To him, his job was more than his career; it was a way of life. This is what I strive to be. Aspiring to be great, participate fully in life, embrace challenges, and always be positive. These are the elements of my personal mission statement. Aspiring to be innovative and embracing change can lead to incredible ideas, strategic success and inspired employees. Having confidence in yourself to succeed should be a motivating factor in attaining your life’s goals and objectives. As a result of many years working in library settings I have developed professional values that have guided my approach to my daily work and decision-making. Two professional values that I embraced most are inspiration and service. Inspiring my co-workers, staff, and patrons is something that has allowed me to be successful as a professional. Creating and implementing new ideas for continuous improvement in my organization by encouraging my staff to improve their skills and aspirations has always been my primary goal. Serving library patrons well, making them excited about what the library can do for them, and creating outreach and advocacy opportunities are important professional objectives for me.
In a recent semester I took an eye opening course, “Library Leadership”. Every MLIS student should be required to take this class. In the course, students are able to assess themselves as a person and as a professional in the information field. Below is the developmental plan that we created in this course. Through it I developed a personal and professional mission statement, took personality and trait self-assessments identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses, and created a course of action that will develop my leadership.
Personal Career Goals
My personal career goal is to become an innovator in the library field. I aspire to become a library leader who reshapes the value and advocacy of the “library”. My goal is to be a library leader in the academic or public library fields, completing a Masters in Public Administration as well as a PHD in Library Management. I hope that being proactive in library management and leadership programs will allow me to be a more innovative and inspiring library leader, which in turn and will allow me to be a significant contributor to my profession.
My contributions to the cultural, economic, educational and social well being of my communities
The value of an academic library is priceless. I have worked in many library environments, however I am passionate about academic librarianship. It is inspiring, stimulates the minds of students, researchers and faculty. Currently I am in a position where I have an effect on people lives. Working in a medical library environment, I assist medical students, residence, physician assistance and faculty with medical research and resource instruction. Last year I was a key component, helping a Stanford doctor save a patient who had an aortic aneurysm. The doctor was doing a rotation in an emergency situation and wanted to have resources available to her in case she needed research to diagnose cases. She ended up using all the resources I suggested and also used an emergency medical e-book that I help her research and download. We are also involved in the iPad project in the School of Medicine. I am a key player, in collaboration, with the Education Technology department in the distribution and instruction for clinical rotation residence.
During my five years at the Lane Medical Library, I am in charge of planning and participating in almost all of Lane's outreach events. I have participated in many events across campus and in the hospitals, instructing and informing users what Lane has to offer. I believe that if you educate and inspire one person to use your library then they will tell their friends and soon people who had no idea what the library could do for them get inspired to come use our resources, programs and services. It is a very satisfying experience when you get a nurse, doctor, resident or a student excited about what the library can do for them. It is a new and exciting time for medical librarianship. Medical libraries are now embedding their librarians in clinical rounds, assisting medical teams with on the fly literature searches while doing case rounds. We are finding that during this time we get a chance to teach and assist doctors and residence and this in turn helps promote and educate users on Lane resources, programs and services.
I think academic libraries hold the key to student and faculty success. I hope with my many years of experience in the academic field it will allow me to pursue my dreams of becoming a library director or university librarian. I would hope to contribute to bringing libraries into the future, advocating for a change in campus perception and creating a value to the library on campus. I would like to change the perception of the library from a place with books and study space to a new perception of them being accessible, indispensible, digital and physical information hubs, that are the primary source of knowledge, and information for the world.
Evidence
LIBR 282 Library Leadership
Developmental Plan
My father was in a high level position in education and I loved how he motivated the people within his organization to be their best. His employees loved him and admired who he was as a leader and a person. He was engaging, inspiring and effective. Everyone respected his decisions and was inspired to strive towards organization goals. To him, his job was more than his career; it was a way of life. This is what I strive to be. Aspiring to be great, participate fully in life, embrace challenges, and always be positive. These are the elements of my personal mission statement. Aspiring to be innovative and embracing change can lead to incredible ideas, strategic success and inspired employees. Having confidence in yourself to succeed should be a motivating factor in attaining your life’s goals and objectives. As a result of many years working in library settings I have developed professional values that have guided my approach to my daily work and decision-making. Two professional values that I embraced most are inspiration and service. Inspiring my co-workers, staff, and patrons is something that has allowed me to be successful as a professional. Creating and implementing new ideas for continuous improvement in my organization by encouraging my staff to improve their skills and aspirations has always been my primary goal. Serving library patrons well, making them excited about what the library can do for them, and creating outreach and advocacy opportunities are important professional objectives for me.
In a recent semester I took an eye opening course, “Library Leadership”. Every MLIS student should be required to take this class. In the course, students are able to assess themselves as a person and as a professional in the information field. Below is the developmental plan that we created in this course. Through it I developed a personal and professional mission statement, took personality and trait self-assessments identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses, and created a course of action that will develop my leadership.
Personal Career Goals
My personal career goal is to become an innovator in the library field. I aspire to become a library leader who reshapes the value and advocacy of the “library”. My goal is to be a library leader in the academic or public library fields, completing a Masters in Public Administration as well as a PHD in Library Management. I hope that being proactive in library management and leadership programs will allow me to be a more innovative and inspiring library leader, which in turn and will allow me to be a significant contributor to my profession.
My contributions to the cultural, economic, educational and social well being of my communities
The value of an academic library is priceless. I have worked in many library environments, however I am passionate about academic librarianship. It is inspiring, stimulates the minds of students, researchers and faculty. Currently I am in a position where I have an effect on people lives. Working in a medical library environment, I assist medical students, residence, physician assistance and faculty with medical research and resource instruction. Last year I was a key component, helping a Stanford doctor save a patient who had an aortic aneurysm. The doctor was doing a rotation in an emergency situation and wanted to have resources available to her in case she needed research to diagnose cases. She ended up using all the resources I suggested and also used an emergency medical e-book that I help her research and download. We are also involved in the iPad project in the School of Medicine. I am a key player, in collaboration, with the Education Technology department in the distribution and instruction for clinical rotation residence.
During my five years at the Lane Medical Library, I am in charge of planning and participating in almost all of Lane's outreach events. I have participated in many events across campus and in the hospitals, instructing and informing users what Lane has to offer. I believe that if you educate and inspire one person to use your library then they will tell their friends and soon people who had no idea what the library could do for them get inspired to come use our resources, programs and services. It is a very satisfying experience when you get a nurse, doctor, resident or a student excited about what the library can do for them. It is a new and exciting time for medical librarianship. Medical libraries are now embedding their librarians in clinical rounds, assisting medical teams with on the fly literature searches while doing case rounds. We are finding that during this time we get a chance to teach and assist doctors and residence and this in turn helps promote and educate users on Lane resources, programs and services.
I think academic libraries hold the key to student and faculty success. I hope with my many years of experience in the academic field it will allow me to pursue my dreams of becoming a library director or university librarian. I would hope to contribute to bringing libraries into the future, advocating for a change in campus perception and creating a value to the library on campus. I would like to change the perception of the library from a place with books and study space to a new perception of them being accessible, indispensible, digital and physical information hubs, that are the primary source of knowledge, and information for the world.
Evidence
LIBR 282 Library Leadership
Developmental Plan
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