Best Colleagues

Best Colleagues and Good Leadership

mI am very fortunate where I work in that we have an ample budget and a supportive leadership team who value our libraries immensely. This enables us to run great libraries. My colleagues are the best. We are constantly able to change and create exciting and extravagant displays, successfully designed to entice young people into them. This is something we are often praised for and, make no mistake about it, I absolutely love this praise.

I am a glutton for a compliment and I do think having an attractive learning environment is very important. It isn’t, however, as important as the impact the people who run a library can have. I sometimes feel very little is known about what librarians actually ‘do’ or how they facilitate the development of reading. This isn't anyone's fault except perhaps my own for not sharing what we believe and do widely enough. What I can say though is that I have the best colleagues I could wish for. I also hope that they think I have good leadership qualities. 

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