Core Webinar: Leadership Skills Through Professional Service

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Core Webinar: Leadership Skills Through Professional Service

Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2026

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.



Description:

Service work or professional service, whether through professional
associations, conference planning, editorial boards, or task forces, offers
librarians a pathway to developing leadership skills outside their
immediate workplace. These roles provide opportunities for gaining
competencies in such areas as project management, strategic
decision-making, budgeting, and team coordination. Developing these skills
can be important to one’s personal professional development, and may even
pave the way for a future move into leadership positions at work.

This webinar, led by Marcela Y. Isuster and Katherine Hanz, authors of the
upcoming book Service Work for Tenure and Promotion, will explore how to
strategically select and leverage service opportunities that align with
your career goals, build transferable skills, and enhance your professional
visibility. We will discuss practical approaches for moving from
participation to leadership roles, navigating equity and access challenges,
and showcasing service contributions in performance reviews, tenure
dossiers, and job applications.

Participants will leave with actionable strategies for identifying service
roles that build leadership competencies, mapping those experiences to
workplace leadership opportunities, and effectively communicating the
impact of their service work to supervisors and promotion committees. This
workshop is aimed at librarians in all sectors and career stages.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to:

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   Analyze service opportunities to select roles that align with career
   goals and build leadership competencies.
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   Apply strategies for documenting and communicating service contributions
   to demonstrate impact during performance reviews and promotion processes.
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   Engage in professional networks through service to build social capital
   and expand influence beyond the library.


Who should attend?

Librarians across all sectors and career stages. Also supervisors,
department heads, and library directors interested in supporting
service-based leadership development, as well as association leaders and
committee chairs.

Presenters:

Marcela Isuster is a librarian at McGill University, where she coordinates
the Digital Scholarship Hub and serves as Liaison Librarian to the School
of Information Studies and the Department of Hispanic Studies. With over a
decade of experience in academic librarianship, her work is grounded in
service, mentorship, and inclusive leadership.

Katherine Hanz, Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning

Katherine Hanz is a librarian at McGill University, where she currently
holds the position of Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning. She has over
fifteen years of experience in academic libraries, including numerous years
as a subject liaison for education, social sciences, and the humanities.
Prior to becoming an Associate Dean, she led the coordination of lending
and access services across all library units as the coordinator and
subsequently head of lending & access services.


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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.85; ALA member $80.10;
Non-member $89.00; Student $44.50.

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1656

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece_at_ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*

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