Member Insights | Resource List: SLA Board of Directors
A Member Insights blog post by 2017 SLA President Dee Magnoni highlights a few favorite books and professional resources of board members. (Learn more about the Member Insights Series.)
Here is a more detailed list compiled from responses from the SLA Board of Directors:
Where do you turn to keep professionally current?
- SLA and its units!
- Other organizations
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
- American Library Association (ALA)
- American Management Association
- Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
- Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
- MarketingProfs
- National/state/regional library associations.
- People, friends, and colleagues.
- Library and information journals, newsletters
- Other journals, news, magazines
- Economist
- Harvard Business Review
- New York Times
- Quartz Daily Brief
- theSkimm
- Wall Street Journal
- Wired
- Blogs
- 3 Geeks and a Law Blog
- Law Librarian
- R. David Lankes
- Stephen Abram: Stephen’s Lighthouse
- Social media and other media
- Learning
- Coursera
- Webinars
- Books on leadership and management
- Topics: Leadership, management, AI, analytics, marketing, dynamic marketing, technology, transportation, library impact, scholarly communication, research data management, digital preservation
What was your favorite read of 2016?
- Non-fiction
- Darnton, John (Introduction). Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times by The New York Times. Times Books, Revised Edition, 2002.
- De Hamel, Christopher. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts.
- Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers. Back Bay Books, 2011.
- House, Steve and Scott Johnston. Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete. Patagonia, 2014.
- Johnson, Marilyn. This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. Harper Perennial, Reprint Edition. 2011.
- Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Mindfulness for Beginners. Sounds True, 2016.
- Katz, Sandor. The Art of Fermentation. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012.
- Katzenback, Jon R. and Zia Khan. Leading Outside the Lines. Jossey-Bass, 2010.
- Knausgard, Karl Ove. My Struggle: Book 1. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition, 2013.
- Lewis, David W. Reimagining the Academic Library. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Reprint edition, 2016.
- Nutt, Amy Ellis. Becoming Nicole: the Transformation of an American Family. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2016.
- Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. Harper Perennial, Reprint edition, 2007.
- Secor, Laura. Children of Paradise: the Struggle for the Soul of Iran. Riverhead Books, 2016.
- Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns. Vintage, Reprint edition, 2011.
- Fiction
- Connelly, Michael. The Wrong Side of Goodbye. Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
- Dueñas, Maria. The Time in Between. Atria Books, 2012.
- Eng, Tan Twan. The Garden of Evening Mists.
- Ferrante, Elena.
- My Brilliant Friend. Europa Editions, 2012.
- The Story of a Lost Child. Europa Editions, 2015.
- The Story of a New Name. Europa Editions, 2013.
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay. Europa Editions, 2014.
- Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. Knopf, 2016.
- Humphreys, Helen. Coventry. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
- Jeffers, Oliver. Stuck. Philomel Books, 2011.
- Miéville, China. The Last Days of New Paris. Del Rey, 2016.
- O’Malley, Daniel. Stiletto: A Novel (Rook Files, Book 2). Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
- Penny, Louise. The Nature of the Beast. Minotaur Books, Reprint edition, 2016.
- Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Echo. Scholastic Press, 2015.
- Sandford, John. Extreme Prey. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016.
- Setterfield, Diane. The Thirteenth Tale. Washington Square Press, 2007.
- Von Behren, BiBi. Mount the Count. An Invisible Book, launched Winter 2016.
