61 / 96
SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY IMPACTFUL LIBRARIANS
59
Seven Habits of Highly
Impactful Librarians
I
Isaiah Berlin once said, “To understand is to perceive patterns.” During
my 15-year tenure at both
Library Journal
and
School Library Journal
, I
had the good fortune of meeting some of the most dynamic and suc-
cessful librarians in every possible domain, ranging from academe to the
corporate world, from municipal government to K-12. It was during this
time that the most compelling of patterns came to me, in sharp relief:
The most creative and effective librarians share the same qualities. Upon
examination of their respective “road maps” to success, perhaps not
so astonishingly, I concluded that they each deployed literally all of the
same core principles.
The masterful use of these core principles rolled up to a singular and
extraordinarily salient outcome: IMPACT. These leaders produced impact
that was prevailingly obvious via results that they could clearly and com-
pellingly articulate to their respective constituents and decision-makers.
They built the basic foundation of their success by having great fidelity to
adoption and implementation of each and every one of the Seven Habits.
Thus we’ve now adapted the “Seven Habits” in the context of school
librarianship and the K-12 environments. The “Seven Habits of Highly
Impactful Librarians” represent effective and proven strategies, rooted
in research and evidence-based practice, designed to help you revise
and improve how you impact the learner, to ensure you and your school
library are woven into the reading, learning, and instructional fabric of
the school.
The
7 Habits of
Highly Impactful
Librarians
C
u
r
a
t
i
o
n
■
I
n
d
e
p
e
n
d
e
n
t
R
e
a
d
i
n
g
■
R
e
l
a
t
i
o
n
s
h
i
p
s
■
M
a
s
t
e
r
M
a
k
e
r
■
L
e
a
d
e
r
s
h
i
p
L
a
n
g
u
a
g
e
■
I
n
q
u
i
r
y
■
E
v
i
d
e
n
c
e
-
b
a
s
e
d
P
r
a
c
t
i
c
e
■