Subject: Northern
Exposure to Leadership Institute--2009.
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Press Release
September
29, 2008
The tenth
Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute (NELI) will be held in
The
Institute's mission is to assist professional librarians to develop,
strengthen, and exercise their leadership skills so that they may be better
equipped to formulate, articulate, and achieve the future changes required by
libraries into the 21st century.
Based
on the premise of experiential learning, the Institute includes group and
individual exercises, as well as the opportunity to learn in conversation with
mentors, who have been chosen for their own leadership skills, and who will be
participating as volunteers.
Northern
Exposure will target 24 librarians who have a desire to develop their
leadership potential, received their library degrees generally within the past
seven years, and a minimum of two year's professional library experience.
Individual
nominations will be welcomed from a variety of sources, including employers,
associations, library schools and the corporate information sector. Nominees
will be asked to supply a one-page resume, a one-page synopsis of achievements,
career goals, and expectations for the Institute, as well as a one-page
description, employer or nominator validated, of a leadership opportunity to be
made available to the nominee in the year subsequent to the Institute. Those
chosen as participants must secure funding to cover a registration fee and
transportation costs to
For
more information contact:
Ernie
Ingles,
Executive
Director,
Northern
Exposure to Leadership Institute,
c/o
5-07 Cameron Library,
Tel:
780-492-5170
Fax:
780-492-7925