Emerging Trends of Future Library and Information Services Leadership in 21st Century

Abstract

Library is a growing organism forever and the leadership the skills are a vital element in positioning executives to make thoughtful decisions about their organization's mission and goals and suitably allot resources to accomplish those directives. Precious leadership skills include the capacity to delegate, inspire and communicate effectively.Library professions arenow forced to decide tactically important decision on chain management. The library leadership development becomes very vital to guaranteed for leaders for their organisation and at present the nature of duties and services are took tremendous changes for librarianship in time to time. Besides the advancement of technologies, ICT applications and internet paved the pivotal role to attract the users became the knowledge society, where adopted the new inventions and innovations very sharply. Librarians must understand the new behaviorand attitudes of the users to handle with care towards to survive this profession. To face these challenges of library services, it is needed and indeed that real leadership skill for libraries to reshape the future to thrive and grow further. This paper describes the emerging leadership skills required for 21st century library leaders based on the changing perspectives of the new knowledge society to address them exactly. It also explainshow to develop the core leadership skills which need to move this profession well into the 21st century as a great library leader.Leadership development programs are required in high demand today and certainly inevitable for future.