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Posted August 3rd, 2009 by webmaster

We are proud to announce the addition of editorial content from the previous LLN site to this new LLN location. You may browse the content by clicking on the topics to the right. Or follow the lead of our Editorial Director, Walt Crawford, and explore what’s new and popular below.

New in Read & Learn:

  • Technology Trends is entirely new (except for one introductory portion), covering library-related and other technology trends asserted since June 2009.
  • Technology Trends: Recent History has been totally rebuilt, substantially expanded and now includes 2009 trends.
  • Coping With Change in Libraries now includes an LLN Peer Panel on change management.
  • Traditional Services: Still Important? provides a range of commentaries on the remaining significance of traditional services and physical libraries.
  • Strategic Planning: An Introduction brings together a series of introductory essays into a single, albeit still incomplete, whole.
  • Strategic Planning Commentaries offers a variety of insights on key aspects of library strategic planning.
  • Innovation Lessons brings together several library commentaries and relevant notes from the management literature. (This completes the move of Innovation articles to the new LLN.)
  • Library Leadership Commentaries brings together a range of commentaries on being a library director or leader.
  • Different Ways of Dealing with Obstacles now incorporates some thoughts from Leader’s Digest on dealing with change.
  • Why Bandwidth is Important offers Jeff Scott’s comments on the need for more internet bandwidth in public libraries.
  • Leadership Succession and Education combines notes on educating new library leaders and thinking about succession.
  • Library Issues: A Leadership Miscellany reminds us of issues (from 2006, 2007 and 2008) that are still important to library leaders.
  • Telling Your Community's Stories offers two perspectives on libraries as micropublishers.
  • Privacy and Confidentiality now includes another substantial commentary on these issues (and integrates a discussion that was formerly hidden). The issues--including the key question of whether libraries can offer patrons control over their borrowing history and assure confidentiality against government and other intrusion--won't go away.
  • Technology and Community brings together additional commentaries on how libraries can or should use technology to connect with the community.
  • Open Access Resources has been updated to reflect changes in the Open Access News and the emergence of a new crowdsourced project to track open access information.
  • Through Patrons' Eyes now incorporates a discussion on patron-centric library practice.
  • More than 200 articles from the old Library Leadership Network have been moved, refreshed and in some cases merged into the new network. The remainder will follow soon.

Read what people are talking about:

These 25 articles were the most widely read on the old Library Leadership Network between November 9 and December 8, 2008:

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