Library school teaches you cataloging, collection development, and information theory - many very useful things! It does not teach you how to manage a legacy employee who has outlasted four directors, navigate a board member with a personal agenda, or get glass out of carpet after a vandalism incident at 2 a.m. This session covers the practical realities of library leadership and administration that live between the textbook chapters — supervision, emergency response, political reporting relationships, budgeting, and more. Drawing on real experiences from the field (some instructive, some chaotic, all true), this session invites participants to share their own hard-won wisdom and leave with practical frameworks they can actually use on Monday morning.
Come for the stories. Leave with the survival guide that no school hands you at graduation.
