UKSG Conference 2017 Breakout - Librarians as digital leaders: developing digital competencies in collection management at Staffordshire University - Vicki McGarvey
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This session will focus on the development of digital leadership skills for librarians in the area of collection management. Within this context digital leadership refers to leadership as a responsibility as opposed to a role. It will demonstrate a digital leadership model that can be reused in different work contexts and the use of online training to develop core competencies.
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UKSG Conference 2017 Breakout - Librarians as digital leaders: developing digital competencies in collection management at Staffordshire University - Vicki McGarvey
- 1. Librarians as digital leaders: developing digital competencies in collection management at Staffordshire University Vicki McGarvey Staffordshire University Learning & Information Services Manager: Collection Management, Research & Digital Resources vicki.mcgarvey@staffs.ac.uk @vickimcgarvey
- 3. What is leadership? The action of leading a group of people or an organization. Oxford English Dictionary
- 5. What is leadership? The Challenges “Ask yourself - how can I make the people around me do great things?” “Seek out people who don't agree with you. It will teach you to compromise.” B.Obama
- 6. Leadership as behaviour “Leadership is a series of behaviours rather than a role for heroes.” Meg (Margaret) Wheatley, management consultant “Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.” Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook
- 7. Now there is digital leadership “Digital leadership refers to the ability to harness digital technologies to facilitate and enhance your leadership skills, specifically as we begin to develop relationships with colleagues, customers and suppliers beyond the physical organisation.” V McGarvey https://sites.google.com/view/dlcm2017
- 8. Staffordshire University Institutional Digital Timeline 2015 Digital U 2016 Staffs Teaching Excellence Fellowship 2016 University Digital Transformation Project 2016 Digital Leadership Framework 2017 Digital Leadership Collection Management 2017 University Plan Digital Central
- 11. •Confidently use technology to participate, facilitate and initiate working relationships and networks •Communicate effectively in a variety of digital media and forums Communicator, Collaborator & Participator •Locate, evaluate, organise and share digital information •Collate, manage, access and use digital data •Handle and manage data securely Information & Data Handler •Design or create new digital artefacts or materials •Develop new practices with digital technology in organisational settingCreator & Innovator •Identify and utilise digital learning opportunities •Use digital tools and resources to participate in learningLearner & Self Developer •Develop and project a positive digital identity and reputation •Look after personal health, safety and relationships in digital settingsAmbassador Staffordshire University’s Digital Capability Values: To be digitally capable you must be a digitally capable
- 12. Expert Team Digital Digital Capable Employee Role All employees will have the Digital Capability Values but skills will be situationally developed & enhanced, depending on the team, role and individual’s expertise
- 13. Digital Leadership Behaviour Competency Digital Collaborator Confidently use technology to facilitate and initiate working relationships and to build networks. Data Handler Locate, evaluate, organise and share data in order to inform decision making. This unit will look at how data can be used to evaluate collections. Digital Innovator Implementing new practices Digital Self Developer Identify digital learning opportunities Digital Ambassador Project a positive digital identity and reputation
- 14. Why Digital Leadership & Collection Management? • Digital encroached on budgeting, promotion & evaluation of resources • Price increases, reduced budgets & new teaching & research portfolios led to periodic evaluation of collections using data • Suppliers & publishers taking advantage of digital communication to stay in touch with their customer • Diminished staff development budgets importance of relationships via social networks, free staff development offerings e.g. webinars & MOOCs
- 15. It’s all about the context… What you need… When you need it! Vicki McGarvey Bookmobile Lisbon 2015 CC BY-NC-SA
- 16. On the job Competencies Professional Development Personal Development DL & CM Framework
- 17. Course Prerequisites Perquisite Solution Open Access Google Sites Just in time Standalone Sections Minimal Production Curated Content Responsive Google Sites Addresses CM & DL Frameworks Blend of knowledge acquisition & work based reflection Consistent design Read, Watch, Do
- 21. Timings 20 hrs to write text 20 hrs to curate content 5 hrs to make amendments 5 hrs to collate feedback 1 hr for student to complete a Unit 4 Staff Uni Students 2 External Students egg_timer Hour glass running out www.flickr.com/photos/74964518@N00/130969487
- 22. Challenges • Proof reading – quite a few errors • Course navigation - clarity on how to progress through the course • New Google Sites – no site history, issue backing up content • Curation – finding good relevant content
- 23. I think it looks like a really useful beginning and introduction to topics relating to collection management. looks really interesting & some of the links are great starting points. You have brought out the international significance of collection management by selecting U.S. and U.K. videos and blogs. Very impressive. There are a number of things I like, the split into small sections, the breakdown within the sections of things to read, watch and do – makes it very manageable without being too directed A very good job, the course makes sense & easy to read & understand Feedback I like the look and feel of it and the ability to start and stop or go back over something.
- 24. Suggested improvements • Introduction • Guidance on navigation • Welcome from the author • Digital Leadership • More on what you will do, how you will do it & the outcomes • Data handling: • Using Excel to manipulate data • Comparing usage patterns of different resources • Data to enhance not cut collections • Include summary/conclusion • What you have learned &where next • Reflection piece of experience undertaking course • Chat area • Badging
- 25. Where next….badging, crowd curation Twitter chats, encourage organisations to provide some good video content, make recommended changes…correct the errors
- 26. So over to you • Is the course useful? • Is the concept clear? • What else should be included? • Would you be willing to collaborate curate?
- 27. Links • Digital U www.staffs.ac.uk/digitalu • Digital Leadership & Collection Management https://sites.google.com/view/dlcm2017/home • eLearnesque Blog http://elearnesque.blogspot.co.uk/
Editor's Notes
- This is about a course I have developed on digital leadership & collection management using google sites – this is the journey I took and the outcomes
- Leading groups and people appears a lot in the definition of leadership including the process goal, word cloud from a business online article on definitions I pasted in
- Even Barack Obama understood the challenges of leadership on how to get people motivated and work with you – this reflects a more collaborative approach to leadership
- Leadership studies and development have now moved beyond the transaction to looking leadership behaviour I particularly like Meg Wheatley’s quote, Sheryl Sandber goes beyond the qualities to the personal and authenticity, I was part of a leadership programme last year and the theme that ran throughout was being yourself with skill – it is the behavioural aspect of leadership that I would like to focus on today
- We know the digital world is all around us and here to stay and now have digital leadership, there are MOOCs on it and JISC even has its own, programme. Finding a definition was challenging quite a lot refer to managing digital organisations or as in JISC’s case list the behaviours, so I put together my own which is in the course
- So how did I get thinking about developing a course on digital leadership which is integrates my involvement i thought there was room to look at digital leadship going beyond the IT organisation also within the context of changes taking place in my organisation which I have been involved in. Give an overview of timeline & digital u
- For me I wanted to repurpose the digital u framework and behaviours the digital leaderhip aspect I gathered – i then started thinking could i repurpose this in other contexts this is how i built the course it used to be called reusable learning object
- This is an overview of the digital U web site which we structured around digital values that Staffordshire university staff should acquire with respect to digital capabilitis
- These are the values in more depth, based on the JISC digital capabilities framework but we developed our own
- The idea being foundation values with specific digital capabilities relating to team and role
- Last year I applied for a teaching excellence fellowship for which I am developing online support for students in the final year or first year of postgrad to develop in digital leadership, its about students being resilient – and I thought I could repurpose these in other setting this is why I thought collection management. When I moved back from eLearning management to librarianship, my boss that the time handed me all things digital but one area needed development was leadership in collection management as the management handed to the person who was managing the IT licenses. I had difficulty finding just in time training, UKSG webinars were good, some elements in books were good, plus the odd article, and I have been on excellent course. Courses are expensive, difficult to dip back into printed material
- But why specifically digital leadership for these very reasons
- However for me staff development is more than a generic set of values, it is about context
- I wanted to develop a course that brought together all these elements
- I had some course prerequisites flexibility, mobile and just in-timeness were paramount
- If you want to take a look here is the site
- So here we have a screenshot of the over of the values of the page, which I will read out if the are difficult to see its always a bit of challenge demoing at large events is better if you can access yourself
- This is an illustration of the site design all had the activities read watch do – in an attempt to move away from a transmissional approach
- As you can see a considerable amount of work had gone into it, but once completed I want students to be independent their learning without my intervention
- You will notice there are still quite a few errors, the curation was challenge I am open access person and like to share and repurpose content where possible if it is good and relevant but that is challenge and time consuming the University of Edinburgh found the same thing in a MOOC they developed about 5 years ago
- I have received some really positive feedback – the flexibility, chunking and the range of content received positive comments
- I also received some excellent feedback