Emerging Leaders

A part of the Emerging Leaders program, the projects are a way to connect participants to each other and to one facet of ALA. We asked the divisions for topic ideas for virtual projects which could be worked on between MidWinter and Annual and a number were submitted. We added others, combined similar themes and offered 37 different ideas with the goal of having 21 projects chosen with 5 people in each. ELs were given 10 points to bid on 1-10 projects and every effort was made to assign each person to a chosen project. We ended up with 23 projects, most with five or six people. A few have four and one has three.

Then each project was given an ALA resource person for content and a mentor from the library community to help with process. We hope that the projects increase community within the group, link each participant to one or more ALA staff, shed a little light on an ALA issue, and contribute to the effectiveness of ALA.

Teams will report on their projects and the EL experience at a poster session at Annual and will contribute to a wiki for communication with the library community.

- Connie Paul

As of today 61 of you have submitted your project wish list! So be sure to send in your selections as soon as possible.

We have set up a listserve for the group and you should all have gotten a welcome email by now. If you have not received one yet, please let us know at emergingleaders@princetonlibrary.org and you will be added to the list.

Just added, new project from IFRT.

We understand there is a problem leaving comments. We're checking on this.

Meantime, 12 of you have put in your wish list for projects. We will be setting up the distribution list to let people (who weren't watching on their own) know that the projects are posted.