Tagged: emerging leaders

2023 ULS-Sponsored Emerging Leader: Kelli Anne Gecawich

Tell us about your current position. What do you enjoy the most about it? Currently, I am the Media & Circulation Associate at Georgia Southern Libraries-Armstrong campus. Basically, I manage the checkout equipment for my campus’ library, our biggest circulation being our laptops. So, I keep track of our inventory,...

2022 ULS-Sponsored Emerging Leader: Caterina Reed

Once again ULS is proud to sponsor an emerging leader. This year the section is sponsoring, Caterina Reed, in partnership with the Distance and Online Learning Section (DOLS). The Emerging Leaders program is a leadership development program for no more than 50 newer library workers per year that provides participants with the opportunity to work with a team to complete a 6-month project proposed by an ALA unit. Each team will present the results of their project at the ALA Annual Conference.

Get to Know the ULS 2018 ALA Emerging Leader, Ashleigh Coren!

Congratulations to the ULS 2018 ALA Emerging Leader Ashleigh Coren! 1. Tell us about your current position. What do you enjoy the most about it? I am the Special Collections Librarian for Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland, College Park. My job is split up into five different...

2017 ULS-Sponsored Emerging Leader: Lorelei Rutledge

Lorelei Rutledge is this year’s ULS-sponsored American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leader. The Emerging Leaders program is a leadership development program for no more than 50 newer library workers a year that provides participants with the opportunity to work with a team to complete a 6-month project proposed by an ALA unit....

ACRL-ULS Fostering Leadership through 2014 Emerging Leaders

ACRL-ULS Fostering Leadership through 2014 Emerging Leaders

Editor’s Note:  Nataly Blas, Business Librarian, Loyola Marymount University The creation of the program Emerging Leaders (EL) has been one of several initiatives ALA has developed in order to foster the growth of leadership skills in early career librarians. ACRL-ULS has taken an active role in promoting leadership opportunities to...

An ACRL-ULS Emerging Leader Looks Back

An ACRL-ULS Emerging Leader Looks Back

Author: Tarida Anantachai, Resident Librarian, Syracuse University Libraries With ALA Midwinter fast approaching, ACRL-ULS will be busy with plenty of meetings and discussion groups (for more information, check out this list of ULS Activities at ALA Midwinter 2014). Midwinter also kicks off another cycle of the Emerging Leaders (EL) Program,...

You could be ULS’s Emerging Leader next year!

You could be ULS’s Emerging Leader next year!

I’m pleased to announce that ULS will be sponsoring an ALA Emerging Leader again this year! If you’re applying to the program and you’re a ULS member, be sure to select ULS under “sponsorships” and you could receive $1000 in travel support for next year’s conferences, plus a guaranteed committee...

Read all about it!

Read all about it!

If you haven’t seen it, check out ACRL Insider for Wendy Girven’s great post about our section! Wendy’s a recent Emerging Leader and a member of ULS’s membership committee. Thanks, Wendy!

ALA Emerging Leaders deadline extended

ALA Emerging Leaders deadline extended

The deadline for submitting applications to the ALA Emerging Leaders program has been EXTENDED to August 7, 2009.  The original due date was this Friday, July 31, 2009. Details on the program can be found on the ALA web site at http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/hrdr/abouthrdr/emergingleaders.cfm. ULS will be sponsoring an Emerging Leader this...