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Library Group Aims to Reeducate Public on Its Profession

Associations Now

In a recent story, The Kansas City Star reported that the Shawnee Mission School District hired a handful of innovation specialists to run grade-school libraries next year. Innovation specialists can both helm the school library and integrate “makerspaces” or innovation spaces, places where kids can use technology to create and invent.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth Kanter

I also continued my position as Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education. But an effective leadership strategy is also dependent on a robust digital strategy that not only uses social media effectively, but incorporate mobile and new emerging digital technologies.