Educopia Institute

Libraries face a critical moment of redefinition as technical and social transformations dramatically impact and disrupt the communication channels through which information is acquired, accessed, and preserved. There have been many efforts over the last two decades to train library leaders (workshops, seminars, institutes, fellows programs), but the outcomes of these training efforts are not well understood. Educopia Institute will use its grant to document the current spectrum of library leadership training, assess what challenges are shared across a range of library sub-fields and what common competencies would best position leaders to overcome them, build a network of professional trainers, and design a lightweight national core curriculum and evaluation method for library leadership training.