Leadership in Libraries: Becoming an Everyday Leader

Library leadership used to be defined mostly by age, experience, credentials, seniority and tenure, job position or other traditional models of status with the library tribe. Today, leadership skills are required at every level to ensure libraries can respond effectively to the new worlds we live in. The changes won't wait for a model of top-down responses. We need different models of leadership: Everybody needs to be able to think and act like a leader.