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Developing library leaders for the future is an issue of global concern. Faced with rapidly changing roles, escalating ethical and political challenges, and varied precareer educational opportunities, our profession is looking for the best ways to identify and nurture new leaders from all levels of its ranks. This paper focuses on one region’s efforts to address leadership development needs. It discusses current thinking about leadership, reviews a current popular trend in professional development for librarians, and presents a case study of a new leadership institute offered by the Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA), a bi-national organization that serves a large region spread over the western United States and Canada. A summer of preliminary participant evaluation and survey data concludes the paper. Leadership in the library profession Concerns about library leadership today are as multi-faceted as they are widespread. We are worried that not enough people will enter the profession at a time when so many are retiring. We worry that those who have joined the profession recently, with their advanced technical knowledge and focus, are fundamentally different from traditional librarians. Those currently in the profession are experiencing stress from the work of navigating constant change. This makes our present work force feel over-loaded and not well equipped to lead libraries through the chaos of accelerating ethical, political, fiscal, and technical challenges facing them today. All of these factors enter into our discussions of succession planning, leadership, and the basic future of the profession. Our concerns could fill pages. Fortunately, so could the solutions that are being explored all over the world. Library leadership development is a particularly hot topic in the United States and in Canada. The result is an ever growing set of options for developing those qualities that make one a leader in librarianship. This paper focuses on one region’s efforts to address leadership development needs. It discusses current thinking about leadership, reviews a current trend in professional development for librarians, and presents a case study of a new leadership institute offered by the Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA), a binational organization that serves a large region spread over the western United States and Canada. Definitions of leadership Definitions of leadership are even more varied than our concerns about it. Donald E. Riggs counts “at least 100 definitions of leadership...includ[ing] leadership styles, functional leadership, situational leadership, bureaucratic leadership, charismatic leadership, servant leadership, follower leadership, group-centered leadership, and so on”. Diversity of definition is further deepened when cultural differences are considered within and across countries. 2

LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR ALL: PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEGREED AND NON-DEGREED LIBRARIANS IN A REGIONAL INSTITUTE