2020 Conference Sessions
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Start Date
4-18-2020 5:00 PM
Description
Special libraries are vastly different from their academic and public counterparts, which leads to differences in the leadership and management of these special libraries. Through my work as a volunteer and intern with the Lexington Philharmonic’s (LexPhil) Music Library since the fall of 2018, I was able to see first-hand how the leadership roles change and are passed around to those staff members involved with the library. Even though I was the newest member of the organization as a library science graduate student, I came in with a knowledge the other staff members did not possess. I formed a plan for the expressed need of a project to focus on reorganizing and recataloging the library’s roughly 800 pieces of music, where I was then able to take the lead and collaborate with the LexPhil staff. After determining the needs of the LexPhil, I was able to collaborate with the other staff members to find the paths to fix this issue by creating a catalog that best suited these needs. Following that, as a team we outlined the plan with steps the LexPhil needed to take in order to solve their organization issues. It was this process that allowed me to see the various non-traditional career paths available to those with a library science degree, as well as the networking and collaboration necessary in order to be successful in the library science field. Through this poster session, I will share how I led the collaborative project to improve the LexPhil’s Music Library.
Notes
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Presentation slides
Orchestrating the Reorganization of the LexPhil Music Library
Special libraries are vastly different from their academic and public counterparts, which leads to differences in the leadership and management of these special libraries. Through my work as a volunteer and intern with the Lexington Philharmonic’s (LexPhil) Music Library since the fall of 2018, I was able to see first-hand how the leadership roles change and are passed around to those staff members involved with the library. Even though I was the newest member of the organization as a library science graduate student, I came in with a knowledge the other staff members did not possess. I formed a plan for the expressed need of a project to focus on reorganizing and recataloging the library’s roughly 800 pieces of music, where I was then able to take the lead and collaborate with the LexPhil staff. After determining the needs of the LexPhil, I was able to collaborate with the other staff members to find the paths to fix this issue by creating a catalog that best suited these needs. Following that, as a team we outlined the plan with steps the LexPhil needed to take in order to solve their organization issues. It was this process that allowed me to see the various non-traditional career paths available to those with a library science degree, as well as the networking and collaboration necessary in order to be successful in the library science field. Through this poster session, I will share how I led the collaborative project to improve the LexPhil’s Music Library.
