Leadership Skills for Library Professionals

Abstract

Digitally exploded information and its management globally is the need of the hour. In the digirtal era, library management with the technically cultured users, the society expects a good leader to guide the information world to access the pinpointed authentic information towards knowledge management. In the changing world, library professionals are to ignite the younger minds with newer ideas to create more knowledge. The fundamental skill to be imbibed as leadership qualities to empower them to perform their services to the user communities is essential. The training on skills such as advocacy, risk taking, innovation and rapidly adapting changes with creativity and interactions are to be more opt for the library professionals to equip them through the different types of the leadership training This paper throw some inputs on the leadership qualities and skills required for the library professionals to think globally and act locally in the virtual environment.