Welcome to The Reading Club, sponsored by SLA’s Leadership & Management Division (LMD) as a global initiative to celebrate SLA's Centennial – 100 years of developing innovative information leadership. We encourage everyone in the SLA community and beyond to join us.
The Reading Club promotes knowledge-sharing and the exchange of creative ideas, insights and trends. We support continuous learning to develop leadership skills and to help achieve professional success. We’re looking for new ideas and new resources and we’re looking to have some fun.
We’ll be posting on selected titles, but we encourage everyone to post on whatever they are reading. Full details are on our Titles List. Our initial titles are:
- Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet by Ian McNeely and Lisa Wolverton
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie.
We’re also looking at the BusinessBalls Website and two titles featured at the recent 100th SLA Conference:
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (also SLA 2008 keynote speaker)
- "The Hidden Traps in Decision Making," Harvard Business Review (classic reprint) by Hammond, Raiffa & Keeney.
We encourage the formation of other Reading Clubs within our blog framework. An SLA Division or Chapter, or even a business group, could select a title and have their own members join and comment.
Everyone is welcome to comment on postings. You can also contribute postings about your own reading or about the blog's featured titles, but you have to register for that. Please contact our blog owner, Alex Grigg, at agrigg@lexmark.com.
You don’t have to join SLA or LMD to participate in The Reading Club, or to form a Reading Club within our framework, but if you like what you see, head over to www.sla.org. If you are already a member of SLA, read our Invitation to join the Leadership & Management Division.
Thank you to Dee, Katherine, Laura, Wendy, and Karen who initiated this venture and to Alex who helped make it a reality.
Looking forward to catching up on my long-overdue "must reads" and joining in the discussions!
Patricia Cia,
Centennial Commission
Director, Leadership & Management Division
Inaugural members of the Reading Club
- Katherine Bertolucci
- Patricia Cia
- Laura Claggett
- Wendy Foster
- Alex Grigg
- Dee Magnoni
- Karen Reczek
Patricia asked The Reading Club inaugural members to comment on why they participated in organizing the Club. I do a lot of reading and writing as part of my ongoing research into the historic similarities between the Enlightenment and the Internet Age. The Reading Club offers a new venue for my ideas. It also brings together a group of forward thinking and technically advanced SLA members who are reading the latest material about our own times of change.
Posted by: Katherine Bertolucci | July 09, 2009 at 01:16 PM
Working with the reading club team members has been great. This past May I decided that I would take on a summer of leadership and management readings. Sharing thoughts on books and articles always enriches the reading experience, and I knew from experience that SLA members have a range of opinions and thoughts that they are happy to contribute in a discussion. I posted a general message to the LMD list, and received an enthusiastic response. Our team quickly came together, and our current home makes these discussions open to all SLA members. I hope many will join us!
Posted by: Dee Magnoni | July 10, 2009 at 05:15 AM