Library Forum Remarks

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Library Forum Remarks

• Brinley Franklin
• March 25, 1999

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Library Forum Remarks

• The Leadership Engine (Noel Tichy)
• Storytelling is the Medium
• The Who I am Story
• The Who We Are Story
• The Where We Are Going Story

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The Who I Am Story

• What you should know about me
• Coming to UConn in 1990
• My new role
• How it came to be
• What it is
• What it isnt

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The Who We Are Story

• Campus Leaders in Providing Service
• Campus Leaders in Knowledge Mgmt
• High Tech/High Touch
• Testing Ground for Shared Leadership
• We Are of Our Own Design
• The UConn Library Staffing Model
• Small Staff
• Good Staff
• Good Salaries

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The Where We Are Going Story

• Move From Providing Value to Adding Value
• Greater Emphasis on Developing Staff
• Continue to Reset Our Priorities
• Become the Kind of Library Where Our Library
  Colleagues Want to Work
• Determine Our Relationship with UCC
• Move Toward Touting What We Do

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The Where We Are Going Story

• 1999/2000 Library Wide Priorities
• Extending the Access Model
• Ownership and Access Framework
• Document Delivery/ILL
• Becoming a Learning Organization
• Undergraduate Learning
• Digital Collections
• New Endeavor System Implementation

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The Where We Are Going Story

• Area and Team Goals for 1999/2000
• Improve Service to Users?
• Respect Organizational Capacity?
• Related to Strategic Priorities?
• Something We Have to Do?
• Position Us For the Future?
• Comments on Area Head Positions

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Library Forum Remarks

• Questions?
• Brinleyf_at_uconnvm.uconn.edu
• Bfranklin_at_lib.uconn.edu
• 486-0497