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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CHICAGO – Applications for the 2016 “</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/ala-leadership-institute" style="font-size: 12pt; color: blue;" title="http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/ala-leadership-institute
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">Leading
to the Future</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">” ALA Leadership Institute (August 8-11, Eaglewood Resort, Itasca, Illinois) will be accepted through April 15, 2016. The institute is designed to help future library leaders develop and practice their leadership
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<p>Building on the success of the past three ALA Leadership Institutes, and with support from Innovative Interfaces, Inc., the four-day immersive leadership development program for up to 40 mid-career librarians will be led again by ALA past-president Maureen
Sullivan and library and leadership consultant Kathryn Deiss.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/ala-leadership-institute" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">
application form</a> as well as details and guidelines are available on the Transforming Libraries website. Applicants may nominate themselves or be nominated by their employer. Participation includes a free one-year membership in
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LLAMA</a> (Library Leadership and Management Association).</p>
<p>Through reflective and active learning, the institute offers participants an opportunity to delve into leadership practices, concepts, and frameworks, and to shape their own sustainable leadership vision and ethos, at the same time as building a learning
community and network. With content based on real-world cases and nuanced situations, participants explore topics related to the greatest challenges and possibilities of leading into a future marked by turbulence and ambiguity.</p>
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<p>Participants in the past three institutes “can’t sing the praises of the institute enough.” They report gaining the “confidence to become more comfortable networking, get involved in my [local] library association, and seek out new career opportunities”
and becoming “a stronger mentor to my staff and utilizing a leadership style which is both inclusive and inspiring.” The consensus is that the institute “inspires confidence and encourages attendees to pursue leadership opportunities they might not have done
otherwise.”</p>
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<p>Application deadline is Friday, April 15, 2016. Support for the institute is provided by
<a href="https://www.iii.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Innovative Interfaces, Inc.</a></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Don Wood<br>
Program Officer<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/cro/index.cfm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:blue">Chapter Relations Office</span></a><br>
American Library Association<br>
50 East Huron Street<br>
Chicago, IL 60611<br>
<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:blue">dwood@ala.org</span></a><br>
1-800-545-2433, ext. 2429; 312-280-2429<br>
312-280-4392 (fax)<br>
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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”—Albert Schweitzer</p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">“</span>One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.<span style="color:#1F497D">”—</span>Malala Yousafzai</p>
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”—Anne Frank</p>
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