Comments on: All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go: A Survey of ALA Emerging Leaders http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/ The murder victim? Your library assumptions. Suspects? It could have been any of us. Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4 By: Comparing and Contrasting Leadership Programs http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-9948 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:52:49 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-9948 […] In looking for some facts about the EL program, I found this really fantastic critique on In the Library with the Lead Pipe. It’s a couple of years old, and they have taken some of […]

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By: Library Day in the Life: Second Half of the Week « http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-5924 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:43:19 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-5924 […] spent some time with this excellent article from In the Library With the Lead Pipe on the program, “All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go.”  Later that evening I participated in my first #libchat on Twitter, and afterwards, some of the […]

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By: Kim Leeder http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-3756 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:08:09 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-3756 Hi Andromeda, and thanks for commenting on this post two years later. It’s good to hear that you’re seeing some improvements in the Emerging Leaders program! I hope you’ll keep us posted as you get further into it this year and report back later when the experience is complete. I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts after it’s over.

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By: Andromeda http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-3721 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:19:56 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-3721 Well, here I am from the EL class of 2011! Was pointed here by fellow EL Nicole (http://pumpedlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/01/takeaways-from-ala-mw-11-emerging.html).

OK, so obviously, I’ve been an EL for all of a few days, really, so there are aspects of this I can’t comment on at all. But I do think this feedback has been taken at least somewhat to heart. The leadership orientation stuff on Friday was much more participatory & discussion-oriented than what you describe. It wasn’t a huge immersive leadership workshop, but they were also clear that it wasn’t meant to be that — that the whole program is a leadership experience, and that Friday was more of food for thought to get us started. Groups do now have mentors who are often past ELs, as well as liaisons from our project sponsors.

That said the projects still seem to vary widely in how much commitment-to-implementation is behind them. (I had gotten this feedback from past ELs so my most important project selection criterion was evidence of genuine institutional support — a reason to believe I’d be *implementing* something.) Too many of the projects are still of the form “write some recommendations”, with no authority delegated to ELs for implementation and no real evidence that the sponsors intend to implement them. And I’m also — concerned? optimistic? skeptical? — about ALA’s willingness (or ability) to change, to empower members to act on their energy. (Really this is one of the big reasons I’m in EL: I want to understand how ALA works. Well, insofar as anyone can understand that. ;)

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By: Dispatches from an unfinished Emerging Leader « Touchable Archives http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-1604 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:02:00 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-1604 […] leaders, joint committee on archives libraries and museums, wikis Kim Leeder’s recent post at In the Library with the Lead Pipe exposes some of the pros and cons of being an ALA Emerging […]

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By: chicago. « info-mational http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-1057 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:31:24 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-1057 […] impact and less general fraughtness from EL than some believe has existed in the past (see In the Library with the Lead Pipe for excellent  background on this […]

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By: Cynthia Whitacre http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-1026 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:53:09 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-1026 Can the ELs get their own space on ALA Connect and start communicating with each other there? I think ALA Connect has lots of potential for virtual communication between conferences and it is brand new. Maybe there is already such a space — I haven’t looked, but that seems like it would be a positive step.

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By: Derik Badman http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-1024 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:04:59 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-1024 I don’t know about the millenial thing, Alison. I’m not one (I’m 32) and I had a pretty negative experience.

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By: Alison Steinberg http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-1023 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:20:21 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-1023 I wonder if some of the negative issues may be from the fact that so many of the EL’s are millenials and having less experience in an association system. Meaning that perhaps a slightly broader base is in order. I think opening the application process somewhat might help. For example, I was a school librarian for over 10 years and highly involved in my State organization but never ALA. I have now been in an academic library for 2 years and I am very interested in becoming involved in ALA but I don’t know where to begin in this huge organization. Someone like me knows how to bring forth change in organizations and has leadership skills that could assist the EL group but at the same time could be well served personally with a program like EL. Surely, I am not alone and it sounds like bringing another facet into the EL program may be beneficial for changes sake.

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By: Rachel Vacek http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/all-dressed-up/comment-page-2/#comment-986 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:33:09 +0000 http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=1360#comment-986 I am very appreciative of your courage and efforts to gather data and put all this into a great article that really captures the excitement and frustration that many of us that have participated in the program feel. It’s awesome that so many people are responding.

When I put together that slideshow that you mentioned early in your article, I was happy that I went through the program (2007), but I was frustrated by so many things, most of which has already been communicated in this post. It is frustrating to see that so many of the problems I listed in that slideshow still exist. But like Peter Bromberg and others suggested in previous comments, I think it’s time for me to stop sitting on the sidelines and listening to other people complain about the program, but time to get involved to help make it a better program for all involved.

On a side note, the wiki says to contact someone from the ALA Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment, but I have tried twice to contact this person about getting more involved, and I get no response. Kim – you said you sent your survey out to the listserv, and I’ve changed jobs since my involvement in the EL program and thus never got the announcement. I suspect that there are many others in the same boat. I have kept my email current with ALA, so I’m not sure what the holdup is. So it might be good to post the information about the planning meeting at ALA in Chicago in multiple places for the time being, while Project V does their thing in getting the communication channels laid out.

I hope other “Emerged Leaders” will be become more involved in the future of the Emerging Leaders program, too. Thanks for your inspiration, Kim!

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