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Library Leadership Is Stewarding the Wrong Thing
Ask what a library leader is supposed to protect and the answers you get are a building, a budget, and a collection. Those are means, not the mission. The job is stewarding the conditions under which knowledge gets made.
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Building Programs That Outlast Their Founders
Most library programs die when the person who built them leaves. The ones that survive are not better — they are differently structured. Here is what that structure looks like.
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What Research Data Infrastructure Requires from Library Leadership
Research data infrastructure is not an IT problem. It is a scholarly stewardship problem — and libraries are uniquely positioned to lead it, but only if we're willing to be more than service providers.