Librarians as Leaders

Chapter 1 of your text states that “to become a full member of the teaching team—that is, a curriculum partner—the library media specialist must learn to become a leader—to integrate leadership skills into his or her repertoire of professional and personal skills” (Kearney, 2000, p. 2). Identify one of the strategies given in the text for effectively “leading from the middle” and share how the library media specialist can utilize that strategy to promote information literacy. How would you implement the strategy?