Lars Leon
- Librarian, Resource Sharing Librarian, Head of Organizational Development
Contact Info
Watson Library, 210
Biography —
Continues to be involved with resource sharing as I collaborate with other leaders in the newly combined Acquisitions and Resource Sharing Department. So plenty of data, assessment, technology, and other means of helping this blended department. I also help provide and support others in a variety of library staff and organization development needs from facilitation, project management, Strengths, and more.
Research —
Involve the values our patrons place on our services, assessment, and various types of organizational development. Creativity and innovation are vital components of much of his research interests.
Research interests:
- values
- best practices
- resource sharing
- organizational development
- staff development
Selected Publications —
Leon, L., Kochan, C. (2022). Collective and Creative Learning to Enhance Interlibrary Loan. Journal of Library Resource Sharing. https://doi.org/10.1080/1072303X.2022.2100858.
Selected Presentations —
Developing our Services through Understanding the Values our Patrons Place on our Services - Kansas Library Conference. Location: Wichita, KS. (10-25-2017).
Primed for Change and Ready for Anything: Empowering Staff Through Effective Development - OCLC Resource Sharing Conference. Location: Virginia Beach, VA. (3-15-2017).
Understand How Your Patrons Value Your Service and What to Do With the Data Including Training - 12th Nordic Resource Sharing, Reference, and Collection Management Conference. Location: Copenhagen, Denmark. (10-13-2016).
It's About the Data & So Much More - IDS Project 11th Annual Conference (keynote). Location: Watertown, NY. (7-30-2015).
How Our Patrons Value Our Resource Sharing Services and why it should Matter to you - Presentation, 12th Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference. Location: Portland, OR. (9-13-2013).
An Updated Look at Resource Sharing Costs - Presentation, 10th Nordic Resource Sharing, Reference and Collection Management Conference. Location: Reykjavik, Iceland. (10-04-2012).
Creating Successful Library Alliances through Group Best Practices - Presentation, Information Delivery Services Project Conference. Location: Albany, NY. (8-02-2011).
Collectively Building Resource Sharing Staff skills with community-wide Training & Development Phase 2 - Northwest Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing Conference. Location: Virtual. (9-10-2020).