Registration is open for the virtual, nine-week 2025 Fostering Change for Academic Library Leaders cohort. The cohort aims to build a community of change agents in academic libraries. Library workers often recognize the need to initiate a change in their organizations but may have no idea where to start. In this cohort experience, participants will gain the tools to spark, lead, and sustain change no matter their organizational position. They will also gain a network of peers to lean on as they lead change. The cohort runs from Monday, May 26 through Friday, July 25, 2025.
Participants will leave the cohort with a toolkit of change leadership practices that will help them take their library from where it is today to a new imagined future. Through a mix of facilitator-led presentations and candid cohort conversations, participants will examine their organization’s cultural readiness for change, create inclusive change processes, and develop their skills to lead effective change. Upon completion of the cohort, participants will receive the content from all facilitator presentations, a change leadership toolkit, readings to complement the openly available Fostering Change, and a certificate of completion.
The cohort is for you if:
- You are in or want to move into formal leadership or management roles.
- You want to grow professionally and expand your leadership capacity.
- You are or work for interim leaders.
- You are a library worker seeking effective strategies for and community in meeting the evolving needs of our campuses.
To hear the results of the pre-cohort survey and how the program will provide practical strategies for working with change stakeholders and cultivating leadership capacity, join facilitators Cinthya Ippoliti, University Librarian and Director of the Auraria Library at University of Colorado Denver, and Brianna Marshall, Interim Dean of the Library at Northern Kentucky University, and register for the free ACRL Presents webcast Fostering Change for Academic Library Leaders from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Central on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.